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...couldn't go to St. Louis [where the firm is based], so we came here," said Robert McGoniagle, president of Local 122. "It's just a symbol for us, not a reflection on the museum itself--we don't want people to drink Bud, but they can see the artwork...
...President could not have had a more appropriate adviser at his side as the National Security Council met Sunday to assess the impact of the attack on the Marines in Lebanon. Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, knew the scene of the carnage ultimately. For three months he had shuttled around the Middle East as the President's special envoy, trying to make sense of the region's complex web of rivalries and hatreds. No problem had preoccupied him as much as Lebanon; he had played a key role in arranging the latest ceasefire...
...White House adviser on foreign and military policy? From the beginning, the obvious candidate was Clark's top deputy, Robert McFarlane, a seasoned and pragmatic professional in national security affairs. But as always when a powerful post is up for grabs, there were other contenders. Officials who feared that "Bud" McFarlane would not be a forceful advocate for hard-line views vigorously promoted Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's intellectual, ideological and sometimes abrasive Ambassador to the United Nations...
...duties are fluid and ambiguous, and appointments to the post are not subject to senatorial confirmation. As a result, the job can change drastically with each successive occupant. So although at week's end a successor to William Clark had not been officially named, the leading contender, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, and the also-rans prompted distinct lines of speculation about the style and substance he-or she-would bring to a White House office that has become a hotspot...
...inclined to pick a cool-headed team player over a potential power grabber. Reagan's apparent favorite for the post, McFarlane, 46, was adept and unflamboyant as Clark's deputy. "When you finish adding up the objective qualities," a senior White House official says, "Bud McFarlane comes up with the most points." A graduate of the Naval Academy, he came to the White House to be an assistant first to President Nixon, then to Kissinger and later Scowcroft at the NSC. He has experience on Capitol Hill as a staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee...