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...Antonio Troccoli of the centrist Radical Party: "We will not judge names but will wait until concrete steps and policies are set down." Bignone's openness may clash with the tough views of Lieut. General Cristino Nicolaides, 57, who as army Commander in Chief acts as the true fount of authority. "It's difficult to make sense of a situation in which you have a hard-liner swearing in a moderate," reflects a diplomat in Buenos Aires...
...long for the President to tolerate on his part social contacts and attitudes that in my case were treated as a congenital defect. Torn between his prohibited predilections to conciliate and his political survival, Ehrlichman adopted a supercilious manner. Outsiders considered it a mark of arrogance; its real fount was ambivalence...
...Israel itself, the raid had become an inflammatory issue in the already bitter campaign for the national elections on June 30. Ever since his first press conference after the raid, Begin had been a fount of information-and astonishing misinformation. Even the chief of MOSSAD, Israel's intelligence agency, felt constrained to lament the "devil's dance of public statements and counterstatements." Begin incorrectly said that there was a secret chamber for making bombs beneath the reactor, falsely quoted a Baghdad newspaper to the effect that the reactor was to be used "against the Zionist enemy," and claimed...
Tuesday evening, the Reagans threw a glittering dinner for their new neighbors: Washington's movers and shakers. In a week of symbolism, it was one of the most important events: Reagan, who campaigned against "Washington" as the fount of most of the nation's woes, was trying to assure the city's leaders that he did not mean it personally. He was also launching a kind of pre-emptive strike against the backbiting that often goes on over the capital's dinner tables, especially against a President who seems to be an aloof outsider. Accordingly...
Regan never backed away from his basic principles or essential message abroad, the source of most trouble in the world is the Communist drive for global domination; at home, the fount of most American woes is the overblown, endlessly intrusive Federal Government. In foreign affairs, the U.S. must build up its military power and face down the Soviets. At home, Regan watchword will be less: less federal spending, less taxation, less regulation, less federal activism in directing the economy and curing social ills-in fact, less Government period...