Word: nunn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urbane playwrights, then because producers came to prefer works that had been pretested in London, where costs are cheaper and audiences perhaps more forgiving. In the early '80s, dramas by Tom Stoppard and Peter Shaffer dominated the Tony Awards for plays; while in the past few years, Trevor Nunn's staging and Andrew Lloyd Webber's melodies have provided the very definition of hit musicals. This year, though, a clog is developing in the transatlantic pipeline. While London offers the customary array of starry revivals, there are just two new plays of consequence -- by, as it happens, Stoppard and Shaffer...
...budget squeeze on the Pentagon that Carlucci may make his influence felt beyond the final year of the Reagan Administration. His opening cost-cutting moves have by no means been adequate to the size of the problem. Nonetheless, they have won him bipartisan respect. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "He inherited a nightmare at the Defense Department, and he has shown exemplary leadership by turning it into merely a bad dream. He gets absolutely the highest marks...
...hard choices that must be made. This has led to speculation that Carlucci, who has already served one Democratic President (as deputy director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter), might continue to head the Pentagon through a Dukakis Administration. Dukakis "could do a lot worse," says Senator Nunn. In a Bush Administration, Carlucci would be a natural holdover, as well as a candidate for Secretary of State...
Deliberating under the less hallucinatory guidance of Georgia's Sam Nunn, the Senate approved a more realistic role for the military. The Defense Department would be designated the lead agency for air and sea surveillance of drug carriers and would be required to provide an "appropriate increase" in flying hours for its radar aircraft. Under certain conditions outside U.S. territorial waters, the Navy could arrest smugglers...
...last minute about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since it did not have multiple warheads...