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This call for reforming the JCS is perhaps the most significant, and will no doubt be the most controversial, of the Packard commission's recommendations. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger has testified before Congress that the Chiefs resolve differences by "log rolling and back scratching." Retired Army General David Jones, a former Chairman of the JCS, has stated, "The corporate advice provided by the JCS is not crisp, timely, very useful or very influential." At budget-writing time, the Joint Chiefs usually present a wish list to the Secretary of Defense and fight for every dime. More often than...
Perhaps they are already. Preachers like Robertson command audiences that form, if not a true Moral Majority, at least several potent and readily mobilized minorities. Robertson's following provides much of CBN's $233 million annual income. In a year, viewers of The 700 Club log 4 million prayer calls to 4,500 volunteers manning telephone banks in 60 counseling centers. Such motivated constituencies can--and do--bestow blessings aplenty, in the form of money and votes, upon candidates who win their favor...
After hitting at better than an 80 percent clip during the past two years, Harvard has slipped to 76.4 percent this season. Still, its performance was good enough to log the team in the top-20 nationally in a recent ranking...
O645: Gelber signs his log report sheet, leaves his post and returns to H.U.P.D.Ten minutes later, he turns in his set of keys and radio. At 7 a.m. he goes home...
...have several pieces of the log in the Kirkland basement," said Kirkland House Master Donald H. Pfister, adding that "it'll probably be until the summer" before the wood will be dry enough to work with. Pfister said the wood will probably become a bench, althouth he didn't know where it would be put or who would make...