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When Yang Baibing took the podium before a committee of the National People's Congress, China's highest legislative body, the simple insignia on his olive- drab uniform gave no hint of his position as the army's top political commissar. But that will soon change. For Yang proposed restoring to the People's Liberation Army a system of military ranks once denounced by Maoists as "feudal, capitalist and revisionist...
...House conference, gives only a mild taste of what is ahead. To get within those limits, Carlucci will, among other things, retire a Poseidon ballistic-missile submarine, two Air Force wings (total: 144 planes) and 620 Army helicopters, and scale back the proposed number of men and women in uniform by 46,000, leaving a total of 2,138,000. Some 20,000 projected civilian employees will also be dropped. Though Congress so far has bought these proposals, they represent the kind of compromise that pleases no one fully. Says former Defense Secretary Harold Brown: "What Carlucci cut is just...
None of these military leaders, Soviet or American, is in any sense a Bonapartist, too big for the britches of his uniform. Nor is any of them an opponent of arms control. When Carlucci replaced the ultra-hard-liner Caspar Weinberger last November, he ushered in a welcome collegiality between the Defense and State departments. On Capitol Hill, he is now probably the single most respected official of the Executive Branch; unlike Weinberger, he seems willing to make prudent compromises with budget-minded Senators as well as with the Soviets. Crowe too has impressed the State Department, even...
...studies in Pusey are often not as desirable, Bailey says, though they include such amenities as air conditioning. Pusey studies are uniform in size, while the Widener offices vary. Occasionally the professor at the top of the waiting list will pass up the first available study if it is in Pusey, Bailey says...
...There can't be any department in which the needs are uniform across the board," Martin says. "We feel that it's important to have flexibility in order to allow people to take on extra research and get extra space if it is available...