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Every day, four or five bulging mailbags arrive on the 23rd floor of the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center. The letters are immediately pored over by Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff. The most newsworthy are sent to Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase, who picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri...
...time Eizenstat joined Carter's campaign staff, he had become what he calls a "pragmatic progressive." Says he: '"I still believe that government has a positive role to play in making people's lives better. I'm not one who believes that Washington is the enemy of the people. But we've learned in the last ten years that there are limits to government's resources and to its capacity to solve problems...
Eizenstat now directs a 27-member staff that advises the President on domestic matters and coordinates White House policies with federal agencies. He is one of the few advisers to see Carter daily, and sometimes several times a day. Other Administration officials give him high marks for accurately presenting their views on policy to Carter, but Eizenstat usually attaches his own recommendations as well. Says an associate: ''On almost every domestic issue, Stu has the last word." He pushed successfully for keeping a few proposed minor reforms in the Administration's tax cut bill, which...
...deny southern Lebanon to the guerrillas, though he added that real freedom from terrorist attacks could come only through a peace settlement. The motive was not revenge, he said, because "there cannot be any retaliation or retribution for the blood of innocent citizens." The newly named Chief of Staff, General Raphael Eitan, echoed the same theme when he quoted a line from Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik: "Revenge for the killing of a small child has not yet been invented by Satan...
Mahre's success reflects the growing strength of the U.S. alpine team, which just two years ago won only a bronze medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World...