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...members of the troika, in contrast, are in effect?though not in title?three Chiefs of Staff. The duties and powers of the three men are ill defined; they overlap and intersect at a thousand points. The personalities differ in substantive ways. Meese, a cautious lawyer and the most conservative of the troika, specializes in summarizing conflicting arguments without committing himself. Baker, also a lawyer, is a hard-driving organizer with finely tuned political instincts. Deaver, an affable former public relations consultant, is concerned, above all, with the welfare and comfort of the First Family. Californians Meese and Deaver have...
...final flaw is that Reagan tends to assume his advisers will agree on most major issues; when they differ seriously, the White House machinery simply seizes up. Stockman last summer demanded deep cuts in defense spending and Weinberger resisted any reductions at all. Reagan, who basically thought the dispute was a technical question rather than a matter of principle, let things drift for six weeks in the hope that Meese could get the two to agree on a figure. Deaver finally intervened to get both to present their arguments directly to Reagan, and the President decided in favor of minimal...
Concentrations differ greatly in their leniency towards granting approval for programs of study abroad. Craig Partridge '83, a student member of CUE, said last night, adding that creating a committee to accredit foreign academic programs would allow students to select reasonable programs "without concentrations breathing down their necks...
...White House strongly defended its selection of Pendleton. Though Deputy White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes praised Flemming as a "distinguished public servant," he added that the President simply wanted "his own appointee in the post." Some civil rights leaders admit that though they may differ with Pendleton's conservative views, he is a proven administrator capable of running the agency. Nonetheless, some of Pendleton's new colleagues, three of them Democrats, are uneasy. "Most of us assume that we will be fired too," says one present commissioner. "To have an Administration tamper with the makeup...
...essence, the Fahd plan does not differ basically from the general position that the moderate Arab states have maintained since the Rabat summit in 1974. The eight-point proposal contains some elements that clearly are acceptable to all sides, some that appear negotiable and others that now seem to defy all efforts at compromise. The points and the problems they pose...