Word: bosses
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Many in the West think Andropov has pro-Western leanings. But remember, he was once boss of the Soviet secret police. He did not get where he is by having pro-Western sympathies. Michael Ganz Dallas
...Bargain Boss...
...thus, without searching discussion, sharp debate or a reflection of frustration, Reagan made one of the most potentially fateful decisions of his presidency. Barring some reversal that no Reaganaut who knows the boss well dares to expect, the President on Jan. 17 will submit to Congress a budget with a deficit roughly as large as the one envisioned by Stockman. To most of the top advisers gathered in the Cabinet Room on that day last month, the implications of a deficit of such magnitude were chillingly obvious: continued economic uncertainty, bitter battles with Congress and possible repudiation of the Administration...
...about a year ago, when a number of advisers, worried about the deficits that already loomed menacingly, pressed the President to prepare a fiscal 1983 budget recommending a slowdown in military spending and sizable tax increases. They were rebuffed so completely that they are not about to challenge the boss's most cherished beliefs so directly again. A favorite saying around the White House is that one staff member or another "broke his pick" confronting Reagan with such unwelcome advice. One prominent pick breaker was Baker. At one point he so nettled Reagan by pressing for excise taxes and defense...
Gray could not be reached for comment on the letter yesterday, but his administrative assistant, Karen Tenney, confirmed that her boss was serious. "Oh yes, he wants it back," she said