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...consistency and collaboration in an Administration are prerequisites, not a policy. On most issues, the Administration has not yet moved beyond a set of attitudes to specific, thought-out positions. Says one senior U.S. diplomat who is also a Reagan supporter: "The Administration's global view is clear. The concepts have been defined. But the regional objectives and policies have not received enough attention. Some of us doubt whether the system that has been set up can work. It has done poorly so far even though there has not been a real crisis...
After the campaign came years of White House advising--and more writing. Under Kennedy, Goodwin served as deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American affairs and played an important role in the formation of the Peace Corps. And he continued writing speeches--better debated, more thoroughly thought-out speeches than in the hectic days of the campaign. After Kennedy's assassination he helped form domestic policy for Johnson's administration--especially in civil rights. And the speechwriting did not end: "The Great Society" was his phrase...
...skirmish. Now comes the true campaign: devising a foreign policy to meet the challenges of what Haig sees as the supremely risky world of the 1980s. Since the Administration has been preoccupied with the domestic economy, its foreign policy is more a set of attitudes than a series of thought-out positions. But if the specifics are still unclear, the overall approach is not. Haig began spelling it out in speeches while he was still NATO commander; his ideas dovetail so neatly with Reagan's that the President hardly considered anyone else as his No. 1 foreign policymaker...
...than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
...INTERVIEW reprinted by the Welles Theater, Fassbinder discusses Herman's mid-life crisis and "painful search for something that moves." It sounds great on paper, but I don't see it in the movie. I see an elegant, poorly thought-out but often very fascinating film of Despair. Nabokov pulled off a miracle in his novel: we stood outside Herman Hermann and still felt his pain; we experienced his warped vision and still perceived pieces of reality. But neither Nabokov's lucidity nor his despair have made it to the screen...