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Ronald Reagan hates firing people. So instead of forthrightly dismissing his Secretary of Health and Human Services, he offered Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler a "promotion" to Ambassador to Ireland. Her first reaction was to call the job "a nice one--for someone else." Only after a 50-minute meeting with the President did she accept. Reagan then stood beside a grim Heckler at a press conference to denounce the "malicious gossip" that he had dumped...
Maryland Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, and to many observers, Mathias' retirement means that his seat could be won by a Democrat, perhaps Governor Harry Hughes. One possibility as a G.O.P. contender: former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...
Such defensiveness would have seemed unlikely a few weeks ago. Not since Smoot-Hawley days had Washington witnessed such an explosion of demand to limit imports as occurred in August and early September. Fretted Sir Roy Denman, Ambassador of the European Community to Washington: "We have seen protectionist sentiment before, but never anything like this...
...first term, the U.S. arms-control apparatus was nearly paralyzed by an intramural struggle between advocates of a negotiated agreement, led by former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, and opponents of arms control, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Burt has since departed to become Ambassador to West Germany, leaving no one to push hard for arms control. The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is unalterably opposed to abandoning SDI (see box). Publicly, Shultz always backs the President. Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze would seize what he considered an opening for an advantageous arms deal...
...seven days of testimony, during which five witnesses were called, the Nicaraguan legal team, which also includes a Briton, a Frenchman, a Nicaraguan attorney and Managua's Ambassador to the Netherlands, attempted to prove that the contras were a creation of the U.S. and would wither away without Washington's funding. In an affidavit, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro claimed that the rebels were practicing terrorism against civilian populations as a conscious policy. He alleged that the political and military activities of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which he left last year, "were directed and controlled by the CIA." Chamorro...