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...receive an urgent cable from Scowcroft transmitting the draft of a letter that Nixon intended to send to Brezhnev. Its essence was that Nixon was granting me "full authority." I was horrified. I would be deprived of any capacity to stall. Full authority made it impossible for me to refer any tentative agreement to the President for his approval?if only to buy time. I flashed a message to Scowcroft uncharacteristically objecting to the grant: "I must be in a position to insist to the Russians that I must pass proposals back to the President for his consideration. Any reference...
Sears-who has held five government jobs since 1964, and who run for secretary of state in 1978--is trying to position himself as the front runner, the candidate who doesn't need the convention for recognition. He likes to refer to polls publicized late last year which show him with the largest name recognition and support...
...were raised in my mind," he admitted at the trial. But he seems to have done little about the situation. The defense argued that Stanford's high mortality rate reflected the fact that he took on the most serious cases, but one supporter acknowledged, "I wouldn't refer a member of my family to him." A 1978 Air Force evaluation did find Stanford fully qualified, but two Air Force officers now say that their signatures on the report were forged. For all the claims and counterclaims, no word of warning was sent to Milwaukee when Stanford was assigned...
...possibility of publicizing Willkie's "awful nice gal": "If they want to play dirty politics in the end, we've got our own people ... We can't have any of our principal speakers refer to it, but the people down the line...
This flying pair of scissors looked like the joke of some eccentric inventor. In fact, the 38-ft.-long aircraft is a test design that comes from the same no-nonsense people who created the space shuttle. Pursuing what NASA officials refer to as the "small A" (for the less publicized, low-budget aeronautics in their agency's name), they built the single-seat model to overcome two major obstacles in supersonic flight: high fuel consumption and thundering noise...