Word: electable
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...Smith is a group of 18 that includes Alfred Bloomingdale, the Diners' Club founder; Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer; W. Glenn Campbell, director of Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution; Holmes Tuttle, one of the biggest Ford dealers in California and long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant, who will...
...prepared to leave the U.S.S.R. last weekend, Percy was buoyant about his mission to Moscow. "I think it's important that President Brezhnev and President-elect Reagan send signals to each other," said Percy. "They are doing so, in a sense, through...
...Washington, however, aides of the President-elect quickly distanced themselves from the Percy trip, and insisted that the Senator was never authorized to present Reagan's views to the Kremlin...
...Leonid Brezhnev's cordial meeting with Senator Charles Percy indicated, the Kremlin leaders want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released...
...like the right thing to do," said the groom. He informed the elder Reagans a few hours before, but, he explained, "I didn't ask my parents to attend because they're real busy now." The next Reagan wedding may be more elaborate. Maureen Reagan-the President-elect's twice-divorced daughter by Actress Jane Wyman-quietly became engaged in August to Californian Dennis Ravel. The couple is aiming for a California nuptial some time in March or April. But Maureen, 39, insists on waiting a week before making her plans public. Says...