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...more than a recommendation from a friend, an exchange of pictures or a carefully blueprinted blind date. Indeed, many young people, with the agreement of their families, make their specific desires (looks, personal history, job, salary, hobbies) known to one of 500 computerized omiai arrangement centers. Says one marriage counsellor, Yasukatsu Aoki: "If a couple do not like each other, they can refuse through our office. There are no family pressures...
...only an hour before Reagan was to go on the air, the French were still recalcitrant. According to U.S. officials, Reagan attempted to place a call to French President François Mitterrand, but Mitterrand refused to come to the phone. Instead, French Presidential Counsellor Jacques Attali told a senior White House official that France not only objected to publication but had "substantive" problems with the accord, which Americans said had not been voiced before (the French insisted that they had). Feeling doublecrossed, Reagan went ahead with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night...
...This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan's sentiments...
Judith Kates, director of the Office of Special Programs and a counsellor for transfer students, agrees. It is particularly difficult for them to accustom themselves to a "new set of academic standards" at the same time they are trying to break into already-established "systems of friendship," she says. Nevertheless, Kates emphasized that transfer students are usually older and have already handled moving away from home before...
...misleadingly modest title of Legislative Strategy Group (L.S.G.), the brain trust that has coalesced around Chief of Staff James Baker, 54, has become the Tolkien ring of power in the White House. The group does not appear on any of the detailed charts drawn during the transition by Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, to map the flow of White House authority. Rather, it was conceived shortly after the Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house...