Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schedule for change. It is not necessary to wait until the election for these other reforms. Already President Chun has instructed his Cabinet to find a way of implementing my eight-point democratization proposal. The timetable for elections and the revision of the constitution should be resolved through negotiation with the opposition...
...required -- and sometimes less. Worse, when covert actions made necessary the participation of a skeptical, often skittish, federal bureaucracy, it seemed to place roadblocks in Reagan's way. Some congressional sources are pursuing the theory that in early 1983 the President and a few top members of his Cabinet decided to move some covert operations to the National Security Council staff, which, because it was not officially an intelligence agency, was exempt from congressional oversight -- or so the Administration thought...
...foreign debt: $110 billion), that have nonetheless managed to lend money to other developing nations. In the past four years alone, the Paris Club has been able to reschedule more than $63 billion worth of uncollectible obligations. The volume of rescheduled debt, says Jean-Claude Trichet, the sharp-eyed Cabinet director of France's Finance Ministry, "shows that we are living in dangerous times...
Most slavish praise. Babbitt's hosannas to Democratic Patriarch Robert Strauss, who joined Buckley in the questioning. Babbitt twice promised Strauss a Cabinet post in his Administration...
From his years as a dinner speaker for General Electric, Reagan has been a master of the art of exhortation. Indeed, the day before he journeyed to the Tidal Basin to stand beneath the bronze statue of Jefferson, the President told his Cabinet, "The mashed-potato circuit is still out there, and I may be right back on it." So why not start now, while he still commands the world's airwaves and has his jet to get him around...