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...will not be proposing any specific fall-away positions," Admiral Daniel Murphy, the Vice President's chief of staff, explained last week. "But there may well be discussions of alternatives hi order to get their views." A strong message from the allies, say White House sources, could prompt the U.S. to re-examine its missile position. "We have tabled a very good proposal," said Bush of the zero option, but he added that Washington was prepared to entertain new suggestions from the Soviets that "will reduce the threat to the lowest possible level...
Moyers is not the only TV figure to prompt complaints from the Administration. On Election Night, Gergen telephoned CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl to condemn remarks made by her and her colleagues that the results were a referendum on Reaganomics and that it was likely to be "a Democratic night." Ten days later, Reagan complained to conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick that TV coverage of the economy was persistently unfair. Said Kilpatrick, paraphrasing Reagan: "CBS in particular, he remarked, seemed determined to distort the economic picture by excessive concentration on the bad news...
...last fall for the presidential race. Congressmen heard the cries from home. The House passed a "domestic content" bill that would have required that American parts or labor must be involved in producing most foreign cars sold in the U.S. The Reagan Administration figured that the bill would prompt retaliation from U.S. trading partners, raise U.S. car prices by 10% and cost the economy from $3 billion to $5 billion overall...
Helms, indeed, was cleverly used by White House aides, who have been unhappy with Rostow's performance as ACDA head. They sought to put him in his place by dumping Grey, even if that should prompt Rostow's resignation. "Rostow drives the West Wing up a wall," says one Administration official, claiming he intrudes into policy issues that do not involve his office and once even sent a written critique to the President about the Administration's Middle East policy. Rostow, who was recuperating from a hip operation in Connecticut, telephoned National Security Adviser William Clark...
...exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major nuclear plant the results would be catastrophic; as Ford optimistically writes. "The forecast accident, if it occurs, will very likely mean the prompt end of commercial nuclear power in the United States...