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...looked like a reunion of the best and the brightest, as four former architects of U.S. foreign policy sat together at a crowded press conference in Washington Last week. Spokesman for the group was Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. Flanking him were McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the grand old man of U.S. diplomacy; and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of SALT...
Like many other parochial schools, Bishop McNamara, a small Roman Catholic high school in Kankakee, Ill., found itself in a fiscal predicament. Community unemployment had reached 13%, and working-class parents could no longer afford the school's $850 yearly tuition. Enrollment had dropped steadily for a decade. The full tuition fell far short of the school's cost per pupil (estimated at $1,400 a year), but no increase was possible. Then school officials decided to try a new tactic: negotiating tuition...
Parents met last spring with administrators and volunteers to work out how much of the $1,400 cost they could afford. Those who were able paid the full amount; the rest pledged what they could. Says the Rev. Irwin Savella, Bishop McNamara's principal: "We didn't ask to see their IRS forms. We never said, 'We hear you have a new car.' " The only paperwork was a simple tuition form with name, address, number of children in school-and a monetary pledge. Surprisingly perhaps, the plan worked. Freshman enrollment for the current year increased...
Last week parents returned to Bishop McNamara's gym to negotiate for a second year. The sessions were 20-minute low-key talks at folding card tables. Says Savella: "It's kind of like hearing confession, except this is a business transaction." Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one couple who had been ashamed of being unable to pay anything last year. Says he: "He's finally landed a job, and although he has had it only three months, they insist on paying the full cost." Another family installed a wood stove to cut utility bills so that...
...case-by-case approach to problems overseas, and without a strong hand at the controls of the National Security Council, the White House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach of Haig has sown doubt about the U.S. approach toward countries ranging from El Salvador to Poland, and nowhere more so than in the ever volatile Middle East...