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Attempting to deal with a crisis that was only dimly understood, the White House, according to a staffer, "went into a state of absolute red alert." Jack Watson, presidential assistant for intergovernmental affairs, served as White House liaison with the NRC and Three Mile Island. If an administrative snag developed, Watson intervened. "There was an imperative need for flexibility and immediate response," says Watson. "As a general rule, this was followed surprisingly well...
...sham," said Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. "We're trying to find an instrumentality to preserve the status quo." Or, as a House staffer explained it, "the idea was to create a country without calling it a country...
...chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will withold their support until they have carefully considered the complete treaty. In general, Congress seems willing to let Carter draw all the blame for foreign policy problems these days, and the Senate shows no inclination to help him out. As one Senate staffer stated Monday, "We don't want to say anything about SALT until we have to. For now, only Jimmy Carter knows what role the SALT II pact should play in U.S. foreign policy. This spring, he will have to persuade the Senate and the American people to share his vision...
...civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like housing, hospitals and schools will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies do not seem to know what to do. Says a Commerce Department staffer in Washington: "We have hundreds of companies that are very worried about this. They keep phoning up and asking, 'How do we collect? What are we supposed to do?'" Complains an official for Levitt Industries, a New York builder that has contracted to build $220 million in low-income housing for Iranian government...
...touch with the people" (and perhaps make voters forget his roots as a millionaire South Florida cattle baron). Now that he is in the Governor's mansion, Graham still plans to spend one day a month moonlighting. On his job list: court bailiff, political reporter and phone staffer with the state's consumer complaint bureau...