Word: cabinets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oval Office and put on a sweater. So, as the national furor over the drug crisis continues to grow, it was not altogether startling to hear Ronald Reagan offer to take a urine test to determine if he has consumed any narcotics lately -- and to ask his entire Cabinet to follow suit...
...President Reagan had issued a national security directive on combatting espionage. In it, he called for widespread polygraph testing to cut down on the flow of sensitive information into the hands of enemy agents and enemy journalists. The directive made all Federal employees with access to such information, including Cabinet officials, subject to random lie-detector testing. After the directive was made public, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said that taking the test "wouldn't bother me a bit." But Secretary of State Shultz would have none of it. "The day in this Government I am told that...
...that sanctions will not work unless the industrial powers join in applying them, she hoped to buy time until at least mid-September, when foreign ministers of the European Community nations complete deliberations on the subject in Luxembourg. If Britain remains out of step on sanctions then, Thatcher's Cabinet seems likely to split sharply on the matter...
...interdiction efforts, addict treatment and public education. The new legislation could end up costing the government $5 billion a year. "If it breaks Gramm-Rudman," said O'Neill, "I'll ask the Rules Committee to waive the targets." Not to be left behind by the Democrats, a Reagan Administration Cabinet council met late last week to discuss a new White House initiative in the drug...
Fresh from his party's stunning parliamentary election victory, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone announced a wholesale shuffle of his Cabinet. After being reappointed Prime Minister by parliament, Nakasone last week replaced all but one of his 21 Cabinet officers. Two Nakasone rivals, Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, were given top jobs within the Liberal Democratic Party hierarchy...