Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things have happened at the NSC all right, but not always the kind that the President can savor. Last week, in the wake of revelations that the agency had been involved in the transfer of Iranian arms sales profits to the contras, Reagan appointed a three-member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald...
...unsettling as their echoes from the Watergate era. That little secret everyone shared about the President -- that he is oblivious to the nuances of his policies, out of touch with the daily operation of Government and blithely detached from distracting bits of fact -- has begun to seem, in the wake of Iceland and Iran and Nicaragua, to be far more dangerous than bemusing...
...while shaving. We will go out to dinner at least once during October, even though it is the sacred time of the baseball playoffs, and you will remain eligible to talk in 10-sec. bursts or more during Monday-night football. You will cease all jokes about how I wake up in the middle of the night smelling dust, and you will learn how to work the vacuum and the toaster...
...wake of the departure of All-America selection and four-year starter goalie Grant Blair, the burden of guarding the Crimson net lies not on the shoulders of one man, but on the shoulders...
...said he has put a 10-member team to worksizing up the NSC to determine "what kind ofchanges may be appropriate" in the wake of theIranian-Contra operation that was coordinated byan NSC aide...