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...historic role of the Comptroller General is really that of an employee of the Legislative Branch?" No, indicated Ross, the Comptroller was simply a numbers cruncher, "a computator of statutory formulas." Justice William Rehnquist seemed skeptical. Harking back to his days as a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration, he got a laugh from the courtroom by recalling that "if the Administration wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Attorney General. If Congress wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Comptroller General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Controls the Comptroller? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...less than a year, and it was intended to provide what the Soviet leader called an "impulse" for future meetings in Washington and Moscow. Though they clashed in Reykjavik over Star Wars, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan still might end up encountering each other more frequently than Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev did during the heyday of détente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of All People | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...logic of the American position eventually prevailed. The Glassboro meeting led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). At a summit in Moscow in 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a pair of agreements embodying McNamara's recommendation to Kosygin at Glassboro: a treaty restricting antiballistic-missile defenses and an interim accord on offenses. The ABM treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Road to Reykjavik | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...quit rather than support the actions of the Administrations that hired them. Among the others: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who resigned in 1980 over the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and Press Secretary Jerald terHorst, who quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical fence-straddling last week when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernard Kalb's Modest Dissent | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Some Times veterans wonder how well Frankel, who has been removed from day-to-day news coverage for 13 years, will handle the rough-and-tumble of the Times's third-floor newsroom. Yet his journalistic credentials are impeccable (he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news emphasis. "I would expect the paper to be a little more steady on the line," says Salisbury. "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Power Shift Within the Kingdom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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