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...same time, however, she must report to and take orders from the Secretary of State. Apparently unwilling to be a mere "company commander," as Haig unflatteringly but more or less correctly described her role, Kirkpatrick sometimes takes an independent line on important foreign policy issues, to the dismay of the Secretary and others at the State Department. On the Falklands dispute, she has been conspicuously out of step, favoring neutrality in order to preserve U.S.-Latin America ties, while the Administration sided with Britain...
...White House has contributed to the chaos by staying aloof. President Reagan has confined himself to generalities: social spending should be reduced, military expenditures should not be cut deeply or taxes raised sharply. To the dismay of some Congressmen who want guidance as to what the White House might accept, Reagan has carefully avoided talking numbers...
...area where the Republican Party can take for granted elephant-size congressional delegations and more than its share of statehouses. Devastated as it is by deepening recession, the region has now become what one presidential adviser calls "the soft underbelly of the G.O.P." To the shock and dismay of party leaders, five Republican Governors have announced that they will not be candidates for office in November. To make matters worse, two other Republican incumbents, Governors James Thompson of Illinois and Charles Thone of Nebraska, are facing unexpectedly tough re-election battles. Result: of the eight Republican-held Midwest governorships...
...Democratic victory this year. Contending for the Democratic nomination are former State Legislator Anthony Earl and James Wood, director of the Center for Public Policy in Madison. More significant: so far, no Republicans have stepped forward for the job. That single fact seems to sum up the sense of dismay being felt among Midwestern Republicans, caught between stubborn economic problems and growing worries about Democratic victories at the polls come November. Jimmy Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, is not exactly a disinterested observer. But privately, many Republican politicians agree with Caddell's tough assessment that the G.O.P. could...
...vote was received with dismay in Washington. Under a measure passed by Congress late last year, aid dollars cannot flow to El Salvador unless the Administration certifies every six months that the economic and political reforms are being carried out. The State Department is still giving D'Aubuisson the benefit of the doubt, but some members of Congress are not. Senator Paul Tsongas, a leading critic of U.S. policy in El Salvador, called the suspension of part of the land reforms a "breaking of faith." Said Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee: "These...