The Week

■ Did Bill Clinton say he wanted his Cabinet to look like America, or like the American Bar Association?

■ Two more ill omens for the new era: the savaging of the CIA budget by congressional liberals and the purge of moderate House Intelligence Committee Chairman Dave McCurdy by Speaker Tom Foley. Liberal lawmakers have reportedly already wrought an 8 per cent cut in the secret CIA budget for FY1993, and they are said to be sharpening their knives for more. Mr. McCurdy’s sin was flirting with the idea of challenging Mr. Foley for the Speakership last year; he has also (gasp!) supported a six- year term limit for committee chairmen. His successor at the House Intelligence Committee is Dan Glickman, described ominously by the Washington Post as “a thoughtful critic of the intelligence community.” With a world in turmoil, threatened by a variety of dangers from North Korea to Iraq to the former Yugoslavia, the Democratic response, apparently, is: The less we know about it, the better.

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■ Did Bill Clinton say he wanted his Cabinet to look like America, or like the American Bar Association?

■ Two more ill omens for the new era: the savaging of the CIA budget by congressional liberals and the purge of moderate House Intelligence Committee Chairman Dave McCurdy by Speaker Tom Foley. Liberal lawmakers have reportedly already wrought an 8 per cent cut in the secret CIA budget for FY1993, and they are said to be sharpening their knives for more. Mr. McCurdy’s sin was flirting with the idea of challenging Mr. Foley for the Speakership last year; he has also (gasp!) supported a six- year term limit for committee chairmen. His successor at the House Intelligence Committee is Dan Glickman, described ominously by the Washington Post as “a thoughtful critic of the intelligence community.” With a world in turmoil, threatened by a variety of dangers from North Korea to Iraq to the former Yugoslavia, the Democratic response, apparently, is: The less we know about it, the better.