Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President Bush has made himself almost as invisible within the Administration as he is to the general public. He attends Cabinet meetings, is kept informed on all problems he would confront if he should have to take over for Reagan, and lunches alone with the President almost every week. At those sessions, says Meese, Bush offers advice on foreign policy and defense that Reagan values highly. But on domestic policy, the word in Washington is that the way to sway a presidential decision is to lobby Meese, Baker or Deaver, and maybe Stockman?but not Bush...
...thing these days, after so many unhappy personal eruptions, is that experts of both political parties in Washington share a growing regard for his foreign policy views. Following his footsteps through the labyrinthine back corridors of statecraft, one gets the unmistakable image of a man who feels compelled to confront both the extremists in Reagan's house and the far right on Capitol Hill. At the heart of it all is a struggle for Ronald Reagan's mind. The President's splendid speech on arms reduction in Europe was a vital signal in that unfinished drama...
...conference is designed to help physicians "understand and confront" the "fear and suspicion" which has led policy makers--in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union--to make "irrational decisions" which have accelerated the arms race, said John E. Mack, professor of Psychiatry at eh Cambridge City Hospital, and conference organizer...
Contending that its internal self-discipline is sufficient to prevent abuse, the medical community has traditionally demanded a degree of autonomy greater than that granted to many professions. But in order to retain that public trust, physicians must be willing to confront difficult ethical questions when they arise. We hope the second joint committee, instructed to draw up guidelines for writing recommendations, will remind physicians that, particularly in medicine, moral questions cannot be separated from professional ones. By recommending a firm set of guidelines, we hope the second committee will succeed where the first has failed...
...State Alexander Haig and National Security Advisor Richard Allen. Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38 can't agree on whether or not NATO plans include a nuclear "warning shot" at the Soviet Union. And the president himself appears to be ignorant about major issues when confront sans note cards at press conferences...