Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig is convinced that the report, true or not, long ago permeated the minds of our allies and, of course, found its way to the Kremlin. If he and his boss Ronald Reagan sometimes seem to be needlessly "poking the bear," the reason is rooted partly in that story. Nothing, Haig contends, is more dangerous than a confused bear, one that cannot accurately read U.S. intentions...
...Peking, Haig found China's boss, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, feeling let down, the victim of a Carter maneuver: the widely heralded normalization of relations was used for U.S. political gain, but the agreement for credits and technology was never pushed. Deng needed, and got from Haig, a new American response, one that implied action...
After the bargain with the Socialists had been struck, Communist Party Boss Georges Marchais, in a rare moment of candor, dropped his usual ebullient swagger and admitted that his party had not exactly been dealing from a position of strength. Said he: "I would be a hypocrite if I were to try to hide that we would have preferred to go into the government in a more comfortable situation from the point of view of our influence." He added lamely: "Some will call this capitulation. I call this the continuation and the development of the Communist Party's policy...
...high-flying boss with a familiar name...
Though the appointment has evoked little if any comment in either Japan or the U.S., the selection of Tojo is an ironic one. Mitsubishi's new boss is the son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime Prime Minister who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was later tried and executed by an Allied war crimes tribunal...