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After three months of deliberations that included 28 full meetings and consultations with hundreds of experts, the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range...
...keeping with this philosophy, Davies' book delights shamelessly in the unnecessary--in gossip and cheap sex (that is, $25 for Parlabane if he'll spend a day in a nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word on the Humanities perhaps belongs to a physiology professor, tipsy at the close of a long-winded faculty dinner. In response to the essential orthodox remark that the Humanities are, after all, about Civilization, he begins to lecture...
...rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise...
...teachers hired to teach math and science at the secondary level are not certified in those disciplines. Hoping to find ways to make education for high technology a top national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic challenge from Japan and other countries is "more profound than Sputnik." The Federal Government, the group insists, must take the leadership to provide an educational system that meets the needs...
...charges against Hernandez forced the White House to accelerate its search for a blue-ribbon successor for the top job, a tricky matter since the nominee must be enough of an environmental advocate to withstand congressional scrutiny and yet fit in with the President's more minimalist approach to regulation. The leading contender was William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator under President Nixon and now a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, a wood and paper company. But his industry connections may make him suspect to environmentalists. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey: "What we clearly need...