Word: edwin
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Haig's quarrels with the White House staff started a few hours after the Inauguration, when he handed Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese a memo, for Reagan's approval, demanding total control over foreign policy (he never quite got it). Haig was often at public odds with Cabinet colleagues and even some of his subordinates...
...addition, the President's closest advisers in the White House?Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver?wanted the Administration to criticize the Israelis openly for more personal reasons: they felt Begin had insulted President Reagan, first by not telling the whole truth when he said it was Israel's intention to limit its invasion of Lebanon to an area within 40 kilometers of the border, and then by ignoring Reagan's initial plea for a cease-fire as the tanks rumbled on to Beirut...
Lured out of Libya, Edwin Wilson stumbles in from the cold
...most of his life, Edwin Wilson, 54, stayed in the shadows, operating in the twilight world of spies and international intrigue. From 1951 to 1976, he worked for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence, running networks of foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge...
...Edwin Netter, 49, counselor at South Commack High School in Long Island, N.Y., on how student-aid cutbacks are affecting applicants to expensive colleges: "We always get tears in the guidance office for rejection. This year it's from kids who are getting accepted...