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This week's cover subject, Franklin Spinney, the Defense Department maverick who dares to challenge the Pentagon's most basic assumptions and procedures, can expect several packages in the mail from a small but dedicated group: readers who collect autographed TIME covers. These determined souls track down the address of each subject, then mail off the cover, requesting a signature. Some collectors have stalked their quarry for as long as six years; others have sent as many as twelve letters before landing signed trophies for their walls at home...
...campaign for President, the special hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was packed. The object of interest: a young bureaucrat who had finally been freed from his drab office on the second floor of the C-ring of the Pentagon in order to present his maverick assessment of the underlying problems of defense planning and weapons procurement...
...McCall, the lanky Republican maverick who became nationally known as Oregon's "live ability" governor, died last Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. In McCall, the nation has lost one of its foremost environmentalists, a man whose main priority was to improve the natural environment of his state, and to spearhead a movement to do the same nationwide...
...maverick tendencies and keen political insight, McCall was best known as a founder of the environmentalist movement. Even in his dying months, he campaigned vociferously for legislation to save the environment, leading a battle against a November ballot measure that would have ended the land use planning policies he created in Oregon...
...side was Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, a believer in conciliation and consensus. On the other was a cadre of fervent right-wingers led by North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a maverick ideologue and veteran obstructionist. Ostensibly the issue was the 5? gasoline tax. But after six postmidnight sessions and four filibusters, the bitter battle became one over party power and personal pride...