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...since been extinguished. The Soviet leader's replies to two letters from Reagan seeking specific responses on various issues consisted of "puzzling vagaries," according to a State Department official privy to the correspondence. A third letter, carried by retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate diplomatic level. Says Harvard Professor Paul Doty, who was traveling with Scowcroft: "That was the Soviet way of saying they will not respond...
...conference, Reagan declared that legislators "must take a responsibility" for the Lebanon debacle because the "raging" debate on Capitol Hill about the Marines' presence in Beirut "rendered them ineffective." Two days later, in a foreign policy address delivered in Washington, the President broadened that charge. "Once we established bipartisan agreement on our course in Lebanon, the subsequent second-guessing about whether to keep our men there severely undermined our policy," he said. "It hindered the ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians and prolonged the violence." As for Central America, said Reagan, congressional "wavering...
Just weeks ago, prospects for any agreement seemed dim. Meetings between White House aides and Democratic congressional leaders, in response to Reagan's call for a bipartisan effort to make a "down payment" on the deficit, came to nothing. The Democrats then started drafting their own plans to reduce the deficit. Some Republican Senators began doing the same, while insisting to Reagan that he would have to drop his unyielding opposition to defense cuts...
Shultz had heard enough. "I really don't understand you people!" he exploded. "Here we have an area right next to us, which a cross section of Americans on a bipartisan commission studied very carefully . . . and have concluded that it is in the vital interests of the United States. Now there are problems there. We all know that. And what you're telling me is that because there are problems, let's walk away...
...supreme self-confidence (he is doubt less the only White House official who cuts his own hair) is accompanied by a razor-sharp intellect. In 1982, during the impending crisis in Social Security funding, Darman suggested forming a bipartisan commission to put the system on more solid financial footing. Currently he is heavily in volved in the White House negotiations with Congress on ways to find a "down payment" on the U.S. deficit. Says Deaver: "Darman is the best strategist in the White House when it comes to dealing with Congress." He can, however, be abrasive; some key legislators have...