Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saved his real shockers for Cabinet colleagues. When an old friend, Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland, was fired by Meese, Bennett declared bluntly, "Terry Eastland's an excellent man. He can join me at the department any time...
...Dallas on Wednesday, Bush pledged to put a Hispanic-American in his cabinet. In his highly publicized meetings with Black leaders last month, he failed to make a similar pledge...
Japan is also growing more active on the diplomatic front. On a Middle East tour last week, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno became the first Japanese Cabinet minister to visit Israel; heavily dependent on oil imports, Japan had long snubbed Israel to keep favor with the Arab states. In early June the Japanese offered to mediate a Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea...
...Chairman James Robinson. The article quoted Felix Rohatyn, the head of Lazard Freres and among those most commonly mentioned for Treasury Secretary, as touting Republican Robinson for that job in a Dukakis Administration. Score one for Rohatyn. It then quoted Robinson as saying he has no desire for a Cabinet post. "There was a lot of mirth in the office over that one," a Wall Street colleague recalls...
...visas. But only 18.7% of them have actually ended up in the Jewish state. Israeli officials, eager to promote the Zionist ideal and increase their stagnating Jewish population, have been agonizing over this "dropout" problem for years, and last week they took drastic action to resolve it. The Israeli Cabinet voted 16 to 2 to force Jewish emigres to leave the Soviet Union by way of Bucharest, where officials have agreed to compel them to proceed directly to Israel and nowhere else. Soviet Jews currently emigrate by way of Vienna, where they have the option of changing their destination. More...