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...Reagan Administration continues to cast about for ways to reshape its policy of "constructive engagement," which has attempted to coax and cajole the country into making changes in apartheid. Apparently, the White House is nearing a decision on an appointment that could deeply affect that policy: the U.S. ambassadorship to Pretoria. Herman Nickel, who has held that post for four years and played an important role as the local spokesman for constructive engagement, will reportedly step down by the end of the month...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan asked Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler yesterday to give up her Cabinet post for the ambassadorship to Ireland, the White House announced...
...year and the loss of a department with 145,000 employees and, as she was fond of saying, the largest budget in the world with the exception of the entire U.S. and Soviet budgets--$330 billion. "That's a lovely position--for someone else," Heckler said of the ambassadorship last month...
...lifelong Democrat, her forcefully conservative foreign policy views have proved enormously popular with the Republican's powerful New Right adherents, who accorded her one of the G.O.P. Convention's most effusive platform welcomes last August in Dallas. Kirkpatrick has reportedly turned down several offers of an ambassadorship, including the prestigious posting to Paris. "I don't know if there is anything in Washington for her," said one White House official, who quickly added, "I mean something that would befit her qualifications...
Possible positions mentioned for Bok have included an ambassadorship to Sweden, home of his wife Sissela. Bok of course declines comment...