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...offer to send in the Marines is accepted, Reagan has become more deeply involved in a policy area that once failed to hold his interest. "You will see more of the foreign policy decisions brought over to the White House," predicts a top aide. Perhaps so, but the apparatus for handling those issues is in an uneasy transition stage at a critical time. It remains to be seen whether Clark's current pre-eminence as an adviser is a foretaste of the new order or is due simply to the immediate vacuum around Reagan. Even within the White House...
...shrinking came with the resignation of Clark's predecessor (and Meese's protege), Richard Allen-a decision from which Meese was excluded. Clark demanded direct access to the President; Allen had reported through Meese. When Clark took charge, Meese effectively lost control of the foreign policy apparatus at the White House, which had been half of his charter. In domestic policy, which loomed large in the Administration's first year, the battles with Congress were waged largely by David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in conjunction with Baker...
...private reality of a star is set apart not so much by the events it consists of as by the emotions that it inspires. The specialness, in the end, comes from the same thing that turns the private person into a public actor: an emotional apparatus so overactive that it can surround molehills of circumstance with mountains of drama. An unusual need for affection and applause is only the most conspicuous of the traits that impel a person toward the actor's life. Not quite so visibly, the actor type tends to have a streak of emotional gluttony...
Other strains have begun to show within the Administration's policymaking apparatus. Last week Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture, a leading proponent of supply-side economics as well as a principal architect of Reagan's 25% three-year tax cut, resigned for personal financial reasons. He follows Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, as the second top supply-sider to leave the Administration this year. Said Ture of his resignation, in an ironic reference to the problems of the U.S. economy as a whole: "My outgoings are greater than my income...
...last four shuttle flights have tested various apparatus, without including any large-scale scientific experiments. Although minor testing will continue, along with secret military experiments, the first use of the shuttle for fully scientific purposes will not occur until the launching of the first space lab shuttle...