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Rivlin already has much experience in analyzing budgets: as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, she co-authored studies of the 1972, 1973 and 1974 budgets under the title Setting National Priorities. She has spent 18 years as a professional budget watcher, part of it as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, helping to plan Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...
...State was alive and well and not (as some reports have had it) dejected by recent diplomatic setbacks. In fact, while Kissinger was voluble and engaging at times, especially toward the end of the session, at other points he seemed ponderous and even petulant. Fairly typically, one longtime Kissinger-watcher, Brown University Historian Stephen Graubard, judged it "not a vintage" performance...
...Elson, Jason McManus and Ronald Kriss, has consisted of members of both our Nation and World sections. The principal contributors: Associate Editors Frank Merrick, Burton Pines and William Smith, Reporter-Researchers Marta Dorion, Sara Medina, Betty Suyker, Susan Reed and Genevieve Wilson. Staff Writer Richard Bernstein, our resident China-watcher, who traveled through the putative "domino" nations of Southeast Asia before joining TIME in 1973, has written many of the main narrative stories during this period...
...Laos. Peking may also be uneasy because a complete U.S. withdrawal from the region might tempt the Soviets to try to fill the vacuum. "What will happen if the Soviet Union asks the Vietnamese to use Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base?" asks a senior Washington China watcher. "Remember, that is where the Russians refueled on their way to Japan to fight the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905." A colleague adds: "The Chinese have been restrained about Indochina developments. They are not all that ecstatic about the North Vietnamese dominating the region. For the Chinese...
...hard as it may be to believe today, his country was unable to pay its debts without loans from Aramco, and one of Faisal's first decisions had to be to cut the oil-fueled allowances of fellow princes. Faisal's predicament, explains a U.S. Middle East watcher, is that "he is a feudal monarch, and the more he modernizes, the more he is apt to undercut his basis for rule...