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...Reagan-fueled nuclear arms race. Weinberger's evident dislike of military accountability, so offensive in Grenada, is nothing short of absurd when applied to evaluations like the House subcommittee's. What appears to concern Weinberger most is not the report itself, but rather the public airing of soiled Pentagon linen. This, despite the claim of Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.) that the report had been "sanitized" by Defense officials prior to its release...
About that time Secretary of State George Shultz drops by for a private gab with the boss, who shows him the letter. George likes it and says the President ought to send it. So Ron gets it typed up on the azure linen stationery, embossed with the Presidential Seal, that Presidents have used for more than 100 years...
...fact, Reagan has written half a dozen letters on his azure linen paper and sent them to Moscow. They all had a personal touch. Sometimes Reagan added a postscript, not the usual form in diplomatic messages. Other times he made certain to foreshadow events, like the fact that he would announce an idea for a chemical-warfare treaty and send Vice President George Bush to Geneva to present it. So far, Reagan is still waiting for a warm, even a human, reply...
...Fisk conference, sponsored by the N.A.A.C.P. and the National Urban League, would have been unlikely a few years ago: dirty linen was washed only in private by the black Establishment, if at all. This apprehension lingers: the ten Fisk workshops were closed to the press. But black leaders talked frankly about sensitive issues. Said National Urban League President John Jacob: "As for the black male and his responsibilities, we are openly acknowledging that problems exist. We are not defensive any more." But Jacob contends that the remnants of American racism are also responsible for the broken black family...
...banquet hall's somber maroon decor was brightened with pink gladiolas from Guangdong province, some 1,100 miles south of Peking, and arranged on 60 tables for ten The multinational place settings included German chinaware Irish linen and French crystal, candelabras and silverware. A twelve-piece Chinese orchestra trained feverishly for two weeks with sheet music sent over by the White House: works by George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, along with Reagan's favorite diplomatic overture, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Getting to Know...