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Edith, 37, a staffer at an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, also remembers having an abortion. "It was in 1964, and it was the classic illegal abortion. I was scared to death. It was late at night and cash in hand. When I screamed in pain, the doctor said, 'You really like this, don't you?' I don't want women to ever have to suffer what I suffered...
...Secretary of State's stern talk about the Soviet Union sounded like the cooing of a turtledove compared with comments from National Security Council Senior Staffer Richard Pipes. In a briefing last week with a Reuters reporter, the hawkish Harvard professor explained his theory that mounting economic problems would either force Moscow to make domestic reforms or provoke it into dangerous foreign adventurism. Reuters simplified this by quoting him as saying that Soviet leaders would have to choose between changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or "going to war." Pipes also was reported...
...meeting in the Oval Office was private, but after it ended White House aides invited photographers to snap pictures of Ronald Reagan and his Secretary of State. Explained one staffer: "We need to show that the Secretary has access to Reagan." Replied another: "You've got it wrong. We need to show that the President has access to Al Haig...
Haig's ability to define an effective policy for these tangled problems is untested. Though he has been involved in major national decisions for some 20 years, beginning as a Pentagon staffer in the Kennedy Administration, he has almost always been a No. 2 man, a brilliant executor of policy formulated by others rather than a setter of goals and priorities. He is pre-eminently a doer who has ascended to a post where he will also have to prove himself as a thinker...
...bring your groceries home in your purse." White House aides were jubilant about initial response to the speech: 1,073 favorable phone calls in the first 13 hours, vs. only 92 negative. And back in Washington, Congressmen conceded that the President had seized the initiative. Said one congressional staffer: "The hard part is beginning. And it's ours...