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Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, 58, erstwhile Scovill Inc. executive and sometime rodeo steer roper, has given the nation a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Reagan Cabinet. The Secretary's insights came in a stand-up monologue, "On the psychology of that jelly bean jar on the Cabinet table, " delivered at the National Press Club. Excerpts from Baldrige 's report...
...inevitable comparisons with U.S. advisers sent to Viet Nam have shrouded the contingent in controversy and forced it to keep a low profile. The men are under orders to steer clear of combat, and are assigned only to bases outside the fighting areas. The heavy security is also due to their obvious vulnerability to assassination attempts by leftist guerrillas...
...these things, it's the government. The Lab pictures itself as the neutral link between the partisan decision to build nuclear weapons and the partisan decision to use them. And though it depends on whom they're talking to, the Lab would like to deny that their guidance systems steer missiles at all. Draper's security chief did just that, in fact, last August at the trial in Middlesex County Court of five anti-war protestors who sat in on the property of the Lab. Two of these protestors served two weeks in prison as a consequence of a liturgy...
...responded to the letter by offering to give a presentation on the Lab's non-weapons work--the applications of missile guidance technology to medicine, transportation, oceanography and alternative energy. As usual, the Lab's management will not publicly admit that its missile guidance systems are used to steer missiles. For this reason, and because the Lab has been unwilling to negotiate on the request to examine conversion, the group Monday sponsored a sit-in on the Lab's property. We intend to continue these sit-ins, as well as pursue talks with the Lab's management...
...would go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, had best steer clear of M.S. Sunward II. Of the 750-odd passengers who pack aboard the spruce white ship in Miami each week for a voyage to the Bahamas, few will later recall ever having seen seas, let alone a lonely sea. On Sunward II and most other cruise ships operating out of U.S. ports, sea and sky are props for a floating fantasy sitcom vacation that promises to be more naughty than nautical. Aboard Sunward, which steams only 380 nautical miles in the course...