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Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger is due to report in June on what should be done with the porous white elephant. Reagan has appointed a commission headed by Melvin Laird, another former Defense Secretary, to suggest ways out of both the new embassy dilemma and the penetration of the current chancery. The high-powered panel will include former CIA Director Richard Helms and former Joint Chiefs Chairman General John Vessey. Four other groups, including the Foreign Intelligence Board, are investigating aspects of the scandal. Former CIA Official Bobby Inman last week offered a novel solution for the bugged building...
...council received, but did not discuss, a report from health Commissioner Melvin H. Chalfen on the proposed Animal Research Ordinance, which goes to a full hearing on April 27. The Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, an animal right group, distributed a criticism of the report, which it considers unduly charitable to the city's research institutions that use laboratory animals...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...Billy Melvin, executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals, argues that his movement -- media portrayals to the contrary -- consists not of star preachers but of tens of thousands of churches across the country that "plug in, day in and day out." Perhaps last week's theatrics provide a useful reminder that the heart of Evangelicalism can never be found on the artificial "Main Street USA" of a theme park but only on the many real Main Streets, however simple and unglamorous, that traverse America...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow