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...power and whether he could hold it. Did it mean a defter and softer touch in Central America? If so, would the White House and Pentagon hard-liners keep hands off for long? Shultz has never publicly differed from the Reagan attitude toward the region, so all of the fuss last week may signal no substantial policy change. "The policy is taking a hell of a beating in terms of credibility," observes a senior State Department official. "To enhance the credibility it was thought that a change in people would be helpful." With such able people ending up sacrificial lambs...
...years since I read his blundering, coarse-fibred romance about the giants. But we mustn't quarrel; we must live together in holy charity. I've seen Dear Clem since last we talked, and he says it's all right for me to stay. I wouldn't fuss him about it if I were you He seems to have great things on his mind...
...clear that, for the first time since the 1940s, the GOP 1980 platform did not include an endorsement of the ERA. Now what was Margaret Heckler, highest ranking Republican woman in the House, doing during that convention? Some insiders suggest that Heckler made a trade with the president--no fuss about the ERA in exchange for a woman Supreme Court justice. Resnek doesn't buy that line. "At that level of politics," he says, "no deals are made--at least not with those on the periphery, and she's always been on the periphery." Nevertheless, Heckler did make quite...
...fact is, we're the only ones being penalized. Cabbies and hairdressers who receive tips aren't being forced to report their incomes. And when they were originally going to do something about the three-martini lunches, the big guys raised such a fuss that nothing happened...
Captain Charles B. Johnson's remark "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal" [Feb. 14] is accurate only in that he was doing his job by stopping Israeli tanks from crossing his position. Encounters like this are an extreme detriment to U.S-Israeli relations...