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That moment of warmth was a refreshing change for an Administration whose key players have been squabbling all too publicly. Indeed, that same afternoon President Reagan drew derisive laughter from the White House press corps when he insisted that the celebrated feud between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Adviser Richard Allen had been "exaggerated out of all reality" and that, to the contrary, "we're a very happy group." Yet, at the end of that same press conference, Reagan learned for the first time that his whiz-kid budget director had brought yet another flap upon...
...generally assumed that lurking beneath the surface of rumor and innuendo was Haig's natural adversary, National Security Adviser Richard Allen. The two have had their differences in the past, but a new and uncommonly vicious outbreak of backbiting last week showed just how debilitating such a feud can be, to the participants and to the consistency and credibility of U.S. foreign policy...
Until Sadat's pilgrimage, no leader on either side of the Arab-Israeli blood feud had shown the courage, vision and flexibility to seek a radical solution to the festering problem. His hosts were at first surprised, then exalted, by his unexpected overture. As Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin then put it: "We, the Jews, know how to appreciate such courage...
...flamboyant personalities--of Sonny Jurgenson and Billy Kilmer, of Larry Brown and Charley Taylor, of coach George "The Future is Now' Allen and owner--and Washington business heavyweight--Jack Kent Cooke. Everyone in Washington knew that the again Jurgenson and the slightly younger Kilmer were embroiled in an unending feud over who was to quarterback, and over who commanded more respect from the veterans on the team. Larry Brown was somewhat of a celebrity--the night he passed the 1,000 yard mark in rushing for the season was more widely known and toasted in Washington circles than former President...
...Boston, things like that don't happen. There, the city councilors bitch and feud and sincerely hate each other, and, consequently very little gets done. "They carry a grudge, I guess," Sullivan says. "I know how to come out of a fight and forget it. The other side has respect for my decisions--they know they're made sincerely and not from politics. And I know they have their people that support them, people they represent...