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...power of television's eye persists: to the watcher, the visible thawing of the dour-looking Begin and the expansiveness of Sadat conveyed a compatibility that no communique could have made as credible. But consider the conduct of the three famous anchor people: each got an "exclusive" interview; whatever unseemly scrambling this required took place offscreen. On-camera, addressed chummily as Walter, John and Barbara, they deferentially answered back "Mr. President" or "Mr. Prime Minister," behaved like diplomats and asked soft questions, as if afraid their very questions might queer the peace. Confined to friction-free language, they repeatedly...
Actually there is less to the Rolling Stone article than its length (12,000 words) would lead one to expect. Though Bernstein is the first CIA watcher to number the agency's journalist-helpers as high as 400, most of his article summarizes charges already made by other investigators. Moreover, his disclosures deal primarily with the cold war days of the '50s and early '60s. "All these issues looked very different when there was a broad consensus in American society about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys," says Robert Kaiser, a veteran...
...Backfire bomber and SS-18 monster-size rockets. But the Carter Administration may bear some blame for the impasse because it badly miscalculated the response that both its human rights campaign and its sweeping arms-reduction proposals last March would trigger from the Russians. The Administration, says Veteran Kremlin-watcher George Kennan, "made just about every mistake it could make in these Moscow talks and has defied all the lessons we have learned in dealing with the Soviets since the last World...
...doctorate in economics from Radcliffe. is unflustered. She knows Washington's power game, having served as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson. She is also argumentative by training-she wrote editorials for the Washington Post for a while-as well as a veteran budget watcher. At Brookings she wrote (with Charles Schultze, now Carter's chief economic adviser) studies of the 1972, 1973 and 1974 Republican budgets...
...immediate prospect. Membership, in any case, will not affect a Washington-Madrid defense cooperation pact, which runs until 1981. Washington already has a warm relationship with Suarez. There was also admiration for Spain's progress in Britain last week. "The secret of Juan Carlos' success," reflected one Spain watcher, "was his rejection of the old men of the civil war and the middle-aged leaders of the Opus Dei [the secretive Catholic lay organization] in favor of his own generation of Spaniards...