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...friendly and easy going person with a good sense of humor," said the soon-to-be staffer in Chemical Bank's retail division. "But I am also reserved. I'm not really a chatty type of person...
...detail man who likes to do things himself. He polishes his elegant speeches and his clunky black shoes--and is proud of both. He reads the fine print in the bills he signs. There is no gatekeeper on his staff; he is the axis of the wheel. One ex-staffer says that Cuomo has created no real machine of government, has no grasp of management systems: "He runs a high- level mom-and-pop operation...
...Saatchis have their eyes on Washington as well as Madison Avenue. They are negotiating a deal to buy the lobbying firm that former White House Staffer Michael Deaver started only eleven months ago. Deaver, who has set his price at $18 million, would continue to run the firm. That may give the Saatchis, who are already public relations advisers to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a solid link to the Reagan Administration...
...could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists could find easy pickings in American cities. "We are absolutely unprepared here in the U.S.," says Dr. Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former National Security Council staffer. "Everywhere in the country, government facilities, commercial installations and civilian networks make ideal targets for terror attacks." A U.S. intelligence analyst concurs: "We have become the ultimate challenge for every terrorist, and we are just not ready...
...Still no U.S. response. At the White House and Pentagon, officials wondered what Kelso was waiting for. Poindexter, however, was calm. He puffed away at his pipe, hardly saying a word. "Poindexter did not call the fleet commander even once during the entire crisis," said one White House staffer. "That would only have increased the burden and would have caused more tension." Poindexter speculated that Kelso would launch his counterattack at night. At the White House, Don Regan was edgy. He called Weinberger and Crowe to come over and explain the delay. Their response was the same as Poindexter...