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...first time that such a televised exercise has featured actual U.S. and Soviet foreign policy and military officials playing the roles of government figures. "I've played simulations against 'red' teams all my professional life," says retired Army Chief of Staff Edward Meyer, who acts as Deputy Secretary of Defense. "This was the first time the red team was made up of real reds -- Russians who think and act like Russians...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...
Even in the tensest moments, both sides are sensitive to how the world views the confrontation. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who plays the White House chief of staff, leaves at one point to hold a press conference. On the Moscow end, Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Academy of Sciences, reminds his comrades that they need to keep the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, informed of developments...
...Zarin, a staff writer for The New Yorker, agrees that writing poetry is a long and difficult process that is often unrewarding for the artist. "Poetry is not a career choice," she says. "It certainly wouldn't be a very wise...
...interview yesterday, Wilson attributed Danforth's withdrawal to problems caused by a single individual in the personnel office. She said that both Bush and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu have assured Sullivan that abortion will not be a litmus test issue for the NIH position...