Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force One at Andrews Air Force Base for the flight to Vienna. The President was accompanied by Vance; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; General George Seignicus, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and four Georgians from the White House: Hamilton Jordan, Frank Moore, Jody Powell and Gerald Rafshoon. All of them carried under their arms black, 3-in.-thick briefing books, stamped in gold with the presidential seal and the legend: PRESIDENT CARTER'S MEETING WITH SOVIET PRESIDENT BREZHNEV...
Friday morning, Brezhnev flew into Vienna aboard a blue and white Ilyushin 11-62, accompanied by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Chief of Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov and Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev protége who acts as the Politburo's executive officer. Resplendent in a blue suit studded with medals, including four Orders of Lenin, Brezhnev descended to the tarmac, gripping the handrail and stepping carefully but steadily. To a roll of drims, he warmly greeted Kirchschläger, walked with a slight limp by the honor guard and then was driven straight to his quarters...
...said at a Mass for priests: "In Rome they say the best things the Pope says are not in his prepared texts. You are enjoying yourselves now, but I will have a row later on for being late for my next appointment." The fact that the Pope's Italian staff objected to his ad-libbing and fretted about his getting behind schedule became a standing joke between the Pope and the Polish crowds...
...eventually do is still unknown, but in choosing the able and totally obedient Agostino Casaroli as his top aide, the Pope has signaled that power will be centralized in his office alone. He has a disconcerting tactic of popping into curial offices to look around, and of conferring with staff experts when their bosses are not present...
...mirror world of Washington, where many things are curiouser and curiouser, and even the knaves have to run faster to keep up, Alice Rivlin is the self-professed "official purveyor of bad news to the Congress." As head of the Congressional Budget Office, she and her 200-person staff figure out what proposed programs will really cost, and her cool counsel has stopped many of them in the gleam-in-the-eye stage...