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...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...
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...
When Terry Hands took over from Trevor Nunn as sole artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987, he had a daunting artistic legacy to equal. But, according to associates, Hands may have yearned just as much to emulate Nunn's commercial success -- and income -- as director of the musicals Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Hands committed himself to staging a most unorthodox venture for the R.S.C.: a $7 million musical adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie. In meetings, colleagues say, Hands was apt to recite costs and potential box-office income at various...
Every day there is a new rumor, another heartbeat-away boomlet. First it's Sam Nunn, then it's none of the above. Earthbound since 1984, John Glenn once again zooms into orbit. Republicans are beating the bushes in quest of the Vice President's Vice President. The roster of G.O.P. names in play is as long as George Bush's resume. Speculation over the Veepstakes has often enlivened the last weeks before dull conventions, but never before have the guessing games been pursued with this much avidity while most voters still have spring fever...