Word: staffs
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Nixon will be well briefed. He dined at the White House with NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio, and at week's end he started a laborious study "of "the book"-a black-bound 300-page volume prepared for him by the State Department and the National Security Council staff. It details his tentative schedule, suggests drafts for everything from airport statements to formal toasts, and sets forth factual background and policy recommendations for each of his meetings with European leaders...
Nixon will stay at baronial Claridge's, not far from the U.S. embassy. The hotel's vaunted service will doubtless suffer. Scotland Yard already has plans afoot to infiltrate the staff with plainclothesmen disguised as waiters, news vendors, elevator operators and striped-pants front-desk functionaries...
Extremely severe judgments in military courts are common. It is a foregone conclusion that those who have been charged will appeal. The first step of the complicated but fairly liberal review procedure is the staff judge advocate, who can approve the sentence, reduce, or dismiss it. From there it goes to Washington. All this takes time, of course, which the accused must spend in prison, since there is no provision for bail in military law. However, despite the rigmarole of court-martial, there is little likelihood that any of the convicted "mutineers" will spend anything like 15 years in jail...
Peretz said the council and staff members of the project are trying to "gain a sense of what the campaign was all about." Among the material collected so far, Peretz described the following...
Volume One, Number One, Cost One Dollar of The Washington Monthly includes; Sidey interviewing Bill Moyers of LBJ and Newsday on "The White House Staff vs. The Cabinet"; a piece by Kempton on the Teacher Corps; a story about how Congress favors building SST's and not smogless cars (i.e., your basic air-pollution priority story); a short unfunny piece on what happens after marijuana is legalized in 1989 by Calvin Trillin of the New Yorker; something about Republicans by Stephen Hess, Moynihan's assistant; a piece on statistics; a story called "The Culture of Bureaucracy: The Special Assistant...