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...flap has focused attention on Allen's past ties with Tamotsu Takase. In October 1980, Allen was forced to resign as a campaign adviser to Reagan. Reason: charges made by the Wall Street Journal that Allen, while serving as a member of the President's Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy in 1970, had leaked confidential decisions to Takase, who has a reputation in Japan as a political operator. Allen was reinstated after the election when Reagan's advisers cleared him of the accusations...
...first crew-that Engle put his bird through during the fiery descent. As the orbiter's stubby wings and flared fuselage began getting lift from the thin air in the upper atmosphere, he threw the ship into a sharp 80° bank and worked its big body flap to the limit, pulling the nose up in a series of porpoising motions...
...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 the Administration: in an article in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman was quoted as saying some most indiscreet things about the Administration's entire approach to budget balancing and tax cutting. Suddenly, the architect of Reaganomics was in danger of being fired...
...Boston, the capital flap took Atlantic Editor William Whitworth, 44, by surprise. He did not see the Stockman story as a political blockbuster, rather more as a "good piece of reporting that explains something about how this budget business works that I have not seen explained in quite the same...
...losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when in trouble. Reagan is remarkably free of sustained vendettas, yet his one-liner about the Haig flap was uncomfortably reminiscent of the bad old days: "Whoever wrote that report not only was blowing smoke, they were doing a disservice to this country...