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Protection Service, with metal detectors, check people in a gathering who come near the President. When Reagan flew to Cancun in Mexico for the North-South summit conference last October, a ship full of Marines stood by beyond the horizon in case he might need rescue. On the Barbados trip, as ever, the President was accompanied by two doctors and four other medical personnel, while a fully equipped hospital ship floated offshore...
...superb at articulating options, synthesizing views." Meese runs meetings with wry humor. At one session the troika had with several Cabinet members, all participants agreed, following a wearying debate, on a paper that summarized positions Reagan would take with Third World leaders at the North-South conference in Cancun. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig then asserted: "I've got one last change to make." Meese replied, deadpan: "No, Al, we're not going to take out the words 'the President.' " Even Haig joined in the laughter...
...years. Certainly, there's no question about our position in the Middle East... I remember that we were supposed to have a disaster at the Ottawa summit and that everyone was surprised that somehow we stumbled out of there in very good shape. [In] Cancun, I was supposed to be pilloried or burned at the stake, and everyone was surprised again that didn't happen...
...then Ronald Reagan went to work at what he does best. In a voice still raspy from a sinus inflammation he developed on his trip to the North-South summit at Cancun, the President told Zorinsky that Jordan's King Hussein was coming to Washington in a few days. Asked Reagan: ; "How can I convince foreign leaders that I'm in command when I can't sell five airplanes?" The Senator, who is Jewish and deeply committed to the security of Israel, said he had never been subjected to a "full-court press like this before...
...wide again for France's new President as he travels to Yorktown, Va., to join President Ronald Reagan in celebrating the bicentennial of the Franco-American military victory that ended the Revolutionary War. In addition, Mitterrand will spend five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing on to Cancun, Mexico, for a 22-nation summit meeting to discuss economic cooperation between rich and poor countries. Last week, after engineering a devaluation of the franc (see following story), Mitterrand was interviewed by TIME Correspondents Jordan Bonfante and Sandra Burton in the gilded salon dore of the Elysée Palace...