THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON

...Consuming passion...

...Coming out...

...Herbert Ellingwood, for example, once Reagan's legal secretary and a devout fundamentalist, is now a deputy White House counselor...

...How else can the tactic be applied...

...Meanwhile, rumors continue to circulate that FBI Director William Webster—who has apparently resisted Reagan Administration blueprints for a renewal of domestic spying—may be offered a Supreme Court vacancy by President Reagan...

...Helms and his "New Right" allies threaten to gut the Voting Rights Act the same way when it comes up for the renewal later this year...

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...He opened the breakfast—The Wall Street Journal reported—with the comment, "There seems to be a lot going on that people don't seem to know much about...

...Obviously, that judgment was in error: With Ronald Reagan in the White House, Helms is in ascendancy, and his tactical skills are taken seriously...

...now it was time to decide...

...Only a few years ago, Jesse Helms was generally dismissed as a political baboon—a caricature of ignorance, racism, and spite drawn from an overblown piece of regional fiction...

...If that is the case, women of dubious virtue abound in the halls of Government...

...July briefing Paths of glory...

...In a 1970 paper for the National War College, Giufreda outlined methods for mass internment of U.S...

...As for this rape and incest argument that always comes up, this is a red herring . . . whereby people come in four months later and say, 'Oh, by the way, I was raped four months ago.' " Shortly thereafter, the Senate voted with Helms to cut all Federal funds for abortion except when the life of a woman is in jeopardy...

...The plans called for National Guard takeovers of cities and towns...

...Alabamans close to freshman Senator and former POW Jeremiah Denton, chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, worry that he may be having a trying time under the strain of Washington politics...

...The vote was not taken on a "bill...

...Meese's remarks, however, came as no surprise to those who...

...Now installed at the little-known Federal Emergency Management Agency is Louis Giu-freda, a California police intelligence specialist who developed anti-terrorist training programs under Meese's guidance...

...This is government by amendment...

...Jesse Helms will show us...

...Over the last few months, Helms has also shown he has the muscle to purge State Department officers he considers "soft" on China and to hold up appointments of those whose devotion to apartheid may not be sufficiently zealous...

...blacks during civil disturbances, "none of whom," he noted, "is likely to go peacefully...

...Helms had inserted a rider to the budget resolution to cut the abortion funds, thus canceling out the arduous committee work that is supposedly crucial to the legislative process...

...About once in every generation, the Senate seems to produce a shooting Jeffrey Stein is The Progressive's contributing editor in Washington...

...ardent support for the military and for prayer in the public schools...

...The latest symbol for the revitalization of the military in the Reagan era now comes, appropriately enough, from the Pentagon...

...Denton, who once called for capital punishment for adultery, has introduced a bill to establish Federally funded information centers to encourage chastity among teenagers, though he has insisted, "I am not a nut on the subject...

...Moreover, some of the people Meese has placed in key slots in Washington may eventually take a hand in developing similar plans at the national level...

...In Sacramento, Ellingwood developed political dossiers on anti-war activists and spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to destroy the California Rural Legal Assistance group, which aided indigent farm workers...

...Intelligence operatives attached to the British embassy in Belize have been hiring wandering "hippies" to take pictures of suspected rebel strongholds in Central America, according to a well-informed recent visitor there...

...Voluntary restraint...

...remember his career as a tough-talking assistant district attorney in Berkeley during student demonstrations, or as the designer of civil disturbance contingency plans developed during the Reagan governorship...

...He rose beside his wooden desk on the floor of the world's greatest deliberative body, the U.S...

...Adding up the costs of job turnover, absenteeism, and lost productivity, the study said sexual harassment had consumed almost $189 million in taxes in two years...

...Meese, for twenty-three years an officer in the Military Intelligence Reserve, would then be a likely candidate to replace him...

...We are in for much trouble from him while he and his ilk hold sway...

...Members of the American Council on Education who conduct research on cryptology have agreed to submit their manuscripts to the National Security Agency for review prior to publication, according to a draft report of the ACE's Public Cryptography Study Group...

...The group "accepted as a working premise NSA's concern that some information contained in cryptology manuscripts could be inimical to the national security," the report stated...

...Another was Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, whose name was synonymous with racism in the 1930s and the 1940s...

...President," he began in his customary long-jowled drawl, "I had hoped that we would not today go through the litany of charges and countercharges . .. and I shall not...

...In other intelligence-gathering innovation's, "friendly" British embassy officials have offered to develop tourists' film free at the embassy, if it's believed to have any intelligence value, keeping one copy for the files...

...Crachup...

...Cops Presidential Adviser Edwin Meese III attracted some attention in mid-May when he labeled the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a "criminals' lobby" in off-the-cuff remarks to a law officers' gathering in California...

...Wandering eyes...

...Through his North Carolina-based "Congressional Club," Helms raises millions of dollars for his pet causes-opposition to abortion, to labor unions, to rights for women and minorities...

...Citing a new study by the Merit Systems Protection Board, the feminist news service Her Say reports that some 30,000 Federal employes, mostly women, left their jobs over a two-year period because of sexual harassment...

...Such a man was Joseph McCarthy, the demagogue from Wisconsin, who helped frighten the country into the Cold War...

...In related news, the Organization of American States has gathered details on what are said to be six counterrevolutionary guerrilla camps, staffed with Cuban exile instructors, on the Nicaragua-Honduras frontier...

...star like Helms—a man whose combination of skill, villainy, and pure can-tankerousness touches some deep, dark, and fearful strain in American culture, first paralyzing the Congress and then spreading its poison to the rest of the country...

...The debate over abortion, he repeated, had gone on long enough...

...At the end of one rambling monologue about the Vietnam war during the terrorism hearings, Denton apologized for what he called his "emotional and irrelevant remarks...

...Anti-ERA acitivist Phyllis SchlaMy has told the Senate Labor subcommittee that virtuous women need never worry about sexual harassment...

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...Further dismay was registered when ACLU officials disclosed that another Reagan intimate, William Wilson— now the President's ambassador to the Vatican—had written a December 1980 letter describing the ACLU as "supported by organized crime...

...Attorney General William French Smith fought a growing reputation as a nonentity in the Cabinet by crowding a press conference, breakfast for reporters, and two major speeches into one week in May...

...Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in an Armed Forces Day speech that he plans to name a Pentagon corridor after General Douglas MacArthur, fired by President Truman during the Korean War for resisting civilian authority...

...Jesse Helms has joined that dubious pantheon...