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...over the world, has been busy creating what both men want: a completely reorganized ground force with smaller more versatile fighting units. Schoomaker, 59, sat down with TIME's Sally Donnelly and Douglas Waller to explain the challenges of changing the Army - and working for a very demanding boss...
...SCHOOMAKER: I can only speak for myself. I think we have an honest dialogue. We don't agree on everything. But he's the boss. I'm not the boss. The day that we can't agree on something that weighs deep inside of me-that's got to do with values, principles, right and wrong-I've got my truck with my keys out there. That's easy...
...look in Soviet diplomacy is personified by Gromyko's replacement, the genial and soft-spoken Eduard Shevardnadze, 57. A novice at foreign policy, he speaks with much less knowledge and authority than his predecessor and seems to be mainly a pleasant and able messenger for his boss. While Gromyko tended to deliver harsh lectures to Western diplomats, Shevardnadze offers competent, but far from exhaustive, position summaries. A Communist apparatchik in his home republic of Georgia, Shevardnadze rarely traveled abroad until he was tapped by the party leadership for his present post last July 2. But he has gained visible confidence...
...Soviet leader; 47% of those who know at least something about Gorbachev suspect that he cannot be counted upon to honor his end of a bargain. Gorbachev's public relations efforts and his youth (by past Politburo standards) notwithstanding, a majority of Americans consider the new Soviet boss to be part of the old Kremlin leadership, no better or worse than his predecessors...
...boss's locker-room mentality, though, is not the only reason for Montgomery's success. During the past four years, Weisel has raided Wall Street for top talent, sometimes regardless of athletic ability, by luring prospects with the opportunity to own stock in his brokerage by the bay. One important catch was Alan Stein, a Goldman Sachs veteran who transformed Montgomery's investment-banking division into a big-time operation that expects to underwrite almost $1.5 billion in securities this year, up 200% from...