THE LUCE MYSTIQUE

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000403830005-0
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December 22, 2016
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June 18, 2010
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April 9, 1982
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/18: CIA-RDP90-00552R000403830005-0 STAT ARTICLE APPEARED ON PAGE" 1 Clare Boothe Luce; whom de- tractors think of as a "Dragon. Lady,"- has returned to Washington. She is back in 'a ' city inhere Republicans currently preside and where she has lived on and-off for half .a century. She is back for a spiral of reasons, not least, you' suspect; out of a.desire -for some good conversation at dinner parties again. (The Daniel Boorstins are due at her'door'in anhour to take her to the. Cosmos' Club.)' Fn advanced age.she has. answered -ai' other bid to serve her country, some thing she has, been doing.. sporadie-~ ally' in one-capacity or. another since she was a. member of Congress from. Connecticut- in- the-'40s. 'Doubtless;. :she doesn't mind the-limelight again;: either. The other evening she. gar- speech in-,;Connecticut: on.'-:foreign" intelligence: It was a sellout. Accord. ing to her. secretary of 35-years, Dor"'.?' othy Farmer,-people stood in line=in, .the rain:for.tickets. In the middle distance, past-thee blond -locks-falling to her shoulder;-' -lay the :interior "of her new ..apart=; ment: There' have been many-L'ucee~' abodes' over-`the years, in Connecti a cut and Hawaii-and Rome grid other climes: This'newest is near the S116:1- 14 reham HoteL She to hav;a''. was sold 'ancl'?ha 1g putting up hew, - oorwa y now. Froiriyhe_ (w_-h- lch=he THE WASHINGTON POST 9 April 1982 .`visitor is still trying to get past), the! ..apartment looks serene and tasteful, .maybe not Diamond-Head-breath-I taking, but with hues of blue, fine J ,4p and paintings; lashes of f-after-i noon sun lying. on gleaming furni- ~ ture:-'Her--diningr room- table- hasn't'. come from Hawaii yet and that isa ; %t'`of art irritant. , 77. 'T'his time around Luce is ''serving on Ronald Reagan's reinstated For- eign Intelligence Advisory Bo e was on the, oar -before, as an then Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter ,abolished it.) She is also a consultant ,te.?the National Security Council. jfriepd of 30 years, National Se= ;crity Affairs adviser William Clark, called her up' and she accepted on'- 'tFie spot. (She had been advising him tat the State Department.) She and Clark have known ^ each other since Clark and Luce'.s daughter, were at Sthnford. ? Her- daughter, Ann 'B'i'akav' ' who was - her only child, "died in an automobile accident. in '40s .the ': Most 'Aprils, Clare Boothe' Luce celebrates ' her . birthday 'with-'-the. ;Eiarks at their, home in:California. "Hers.was the first name I thought of when came over ere"ssa .Clark. " asked her to a consul- t because of her interest an know ge in the NSC rocess ' par- ''tftularly in intelligence. might a that.the president has a great trust V!her, too."=She goes down. to the .'%Vhite House regularly, according to n 'aide; whenever Clark ` wishes . to IA RDP90 0055280004038300 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/18 : C 05-0