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...other shortcoming is a lack of experience: though he spent five years on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, he has never been a member of the Armed Services panel, has never performed military service or worked at the Pentagon. But in the wake of the Tower tempest, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle anticipate a quiet and speedy Senate review. "This time it will be a confirmation," said Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "not an execution...
...That's too broad a question. It is probably because we didn't fulfill the slogans we proclaimed in 1917: "Power to the Soviets," "Land to the peasants," "Factories to the workers," "Bread to the hungry." Authoritarian leadership and therefore a lack of democracy have led to a certain apathy among the people, to a sort of civil nihilism, a skepticism. And to all this we must add the mistakes of the cult of personality. That's just one part of the problem...
...does not have to like Married . . . With Children or TV's tabloid shows to be disturbed by campaigns to drive them from the air. Advertiser boycotts, if successful, do not make TV better, only blander. They also reveal a remarkable lack of faith in the ability of viewers to lodge the ultimate protest: turning...
When the Tower nomination foundered, an inordinate share of the blame began falling on Sununu for his lack of Washington experience and his abrasive personality. Many of the Tower snafus, however, were beyond Sununu's control, as are most of the tensions in the structure of the Bush White House. Several Administration officials expect that this spring training crisis could even strengthen Sununu's hand as Bush realizes he needs someone to run stronger interference for him. Already Sununu has adopted the system used by Bush's vice-presidential chief of staff, in which subordinates are under strict orders...
Advocates say such systems will allow computers to be linked in more useful ways without endangering security. Says Walker: "The lack of trusted computer systems is the largest impediment to the effective use of computers in the U.S. today." Until such systems are developed and put in place, computer networks will continue to be at risk -- although the threat cuts both ways. "If you believe the Soviet Union can get into our systems and change them at will," asks a former senior Government expert, "what do you think they think we can do to them?" In the hidden world...