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Most civilian leaders remained skeptical of the army's intentions. Declared Antonio Troccoli of the centrist Radical Party: "We will not judge names but will wait until concrete steps and policies are set down." Bignone's openness may clash with the tough views of Lieut. General Cristino Nicolaides, 57, who as army Commander in Chief acts as the true fount of authority. "It's difficult to make sense of a situation in which you have a hard-liner swearing in a moderate," reflects a diplomat in Buenos Aires...
...were spinning out of control-at least, out of his control-that seems to have triggered Haig's sudden departure. Those difficulties were not exactly the reasons for his resignation; there was no single predominant reason. Many Administration officials view Haig's departure as due to a clash of personalities more than to policy quarrels. But bitter disagreements between Haig and other officials over policy toward Israel and the celebrated pipeline that will carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe did bring to a head a long series of tensions and frustrations that had been building...
...Secretary of State-designate is far less likely than his predecessor to clash with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger worked under Shultz at OMB and was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Nixon's Cabinet when Shultz was at Treasury. After leaving Government in 1975, Weinberger followed Shultz to Bechtel and became general counsel and vice president of the firm. The two men are known to have worked together smoothly...
...clash of corporate cultures may, in fact, help to explain why many highflying 1960s conglomerates such as Litton Industries, LTV and RCA later stumbled. By swallowing up companies with widely different cultures, some conglomerate leviathans all but invited interoffice quarreling and management disputes. In many cases the only way to resolve such problems has been to spin the acquired companies off, sometimes at a painful loss...
...more often, Mailer easily squanders those "very great gifts." A televised meeting with an old adversary is not exactly The Clash of the Titans...