Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to him. Insiders whisper that he is pondering a run for higher office; he has been mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate. The Secretary brushes off such rumors, saying that what he would really like to be is a tight end for the Chicago Bears. "If a feeler comes from them, I'm gone," jokes Bennett, a burly 220- pounder who played tackle at Williams College. But he concedes a joy in the rough-and-tumble of politics: "Do I like it? I say yeah...
...Journal disclosed that in March Deaver sounded out Fred Fielding, the departing White House counsel, about a job with Deaver's firm. At the time, Fielding's office happened to be conducting an inquiry into possible conflict-of-interest violations by Deaver. Fielding was not interested in the job feeler, but he quickly withdrew from the probe...
Efforts by the U.S. and France to find Baby Doc a new home continued to be unavailing. The latest country to reject a feeler: tiny Monaco. When the west African nation of Gabon was sounded out, the response from President Omar Bongo was curt: "We are not a garbage can." Baby Doc would love to stay in France, but the French summarily reject the idea. Stung by his rough treatment, Duvalier declared, "If I had known the only country I feel close to wouldn't welcome me, I would never have given up power...
...that they could not confirm a date that far away. Assuming he could come, they added rather pointedly, would Harvard award him an honorary degree? Well. Such awards, of course, are decided by a sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word of the White House feeler got around, some of the faculty became rather petulant. John Womack Jr., chairman of the history department, said, "I'd feel ashamed if they offered him a degree." George Wald, our Nobel laureate biologist who also seems to have become an expert in political science, mumbled something to the New York...
...Soviets might be willing to go along with a merger of START and INF talks. Such a step would allow the Soviets to slide around their vow not to resume INF talks as long as the U.S. was deploying Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. An even more promising feeler came from an unnamed "high-ranking Soviet official," widely assumed to be Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who suggested to the Boston Globe that the two powers seek a quick "interim agreement" on the less controversial elements of arms control while postponing for the moment the many tougher far-reaching questions...