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Worried that the report would appear just as the President was launching his campaign for more defense spending, White House and Defense Department officials scrambled to try to keep the Packard commission from undercutting the President's defense budget crusade. Indeed, a draft by Commission Member James Woolsey, who was Navy Under Secretary during the Carter Administration, vividly depicted Pentagon shortcomings. One passage, for instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop...
...double build-down seem like a joint brain storm. After consulting closely with Scowcroft, Aspin released a letter calling on the commission to recommend a new START proposal. It was to meet a series of criteria spelled out in an accompanying essay, which in turn was written by Woolsey and was designed to elicit a proposal along the lines of the Kent double-build-down scheme...
Scowcroft, Aspin and the others were willing to let the Administration come forward with some version of the double build-down so that it would look like a presidential initiative. But the policymaking machinery of the Administration was close to breaking down. Despite Woolsey's optimistic reading of Perle's attitude, the Pentagon was still fighting the idea of trade offs between ballistic missiles and bomber weapons...
...sufficiently adult to study a book on connubial hygiene, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love, the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then...
...John Deutch; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former CIA Director Richard Helms; John Lyons, chairman of the defense subcommittee of the executive council of the AFL-CIO; Vice Admiral Levering Smith, former director of special projects for the Navy; and former Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey...