Word: cabineteer
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...Palestinian cabinet Thursday night repeated Yasser Arafat's pledge to declare a Palestinian state, despite Israel's warning that it will respond with "unilateral action." Rhetoric aside, Arafat's plan -- which he is expected to pitch to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday -- may be good news for Benjamin Netanyahu. "It would free Netanyahu of any obligations under the Oslo peace accords, which he opposed, and would freeze the current situation in Palestinian territories," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "That would mean a Palestinian state in half of Gaza and a few islands of the West Bank...
Sullivan served under both former Presidents Reagan and Bush. She also spent four years as a cabinet member for New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman...
...also matters that the President is simply furious at Starr, whose investigation seems to Clinton like the culmination of efforts by all the opponents who have been so relentless in their pursuit of him throughout his presidency and before. Last Thursday, when he summoned his Cabinet to an emotional meeting at the White House residence, according to the Washington Post, the President said he had been angry for 4 1/2 years, which would be about when Robert Fiske, the first Whitewater independent counsel, was appointed. Though some comparisons between this crisis and Watergate are far-fetched, in this Clinton does...
...formula for confusion. In a statement last week, he denied any plans to return to the Soviet past but said flatly, "The government should intervene in economic affairs and regulate them." Then he selected two men with a lot of experience with such intervention. As his first Cabinet appointment, he named Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist Party member and a former head of the Soviet State Planning Committee, Gosplan. With headquarters in the building where the Duma sits, Gosplan was the organization that tried to plan in advance every transaction in the Soviet economy. Since Primakov has no experience in running...
Other correspondents tapped their sources to gauge the response. Ann Blackman found that many Cabinet members "are deeply disgusted and disappointed that the issues they came to Washington to promote are fading into oblivion." John Dickerson returned from vacation to spend 14-hour days on Capitol Hill monitoring lawmakers' attitudes toward censure or impeachment. Michael Weisskopf pursued fresh leads arising out of Starr's investigation and spent time with people close to Clinton, "trying to get a sense of his mood...