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...wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade Representative. The new selections: Jeane Kirkpatrick, professor of government at Georgetown University, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Denver Lawyer James Watt, an advocate of oil and gas development of wilderness lands, as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel Pierce, a black attorney and labor mediator hi New York, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Block, Illinois director of agriculture...
...developed a fascination, though hardly a sympathy, for Communism in its various manifestations. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at Notre Dame, he went to the University of Munich in West Germany to work on a doctoral dissertation. In 1962 he helped found the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. When Nixon was elected President, Allen was appointed to the NSC, but he quickly ran afoul of the man in charge: Kissinger. Relegated to lackluster assignments, Allen quit in ten months, and he and Kissinger have been sniping at each other ever since...
...part of a group of hard-line defense and foreign policy intellectuals associated with the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University, where she teaches political science. A gifted lecturer with a schoolmarm's no-nonsense forthrightness, Kirkpatrick is admired and sometimes feared by colleagues as a scorching polemicist-an attribute that may win her some points but may also make some difficulties for her, as it did for one other outspoken U.N. Ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Evron Kirkpatrick, who is now executive director of the American Political Science Association, and devoted most of the next eight years to bringing up their three sons. When the children had all entered school, she earned her doctorate in political science from Columbia University, and then started teaching at Georgetown. In 1974 she published a book, Political Woman, in which she showed that American women in politics behave much like men, though they tend to get a later start because of child rearing. "There is a reluctance to have women run for office," she explains. "But one of the interesting...
...describing Nancy Reagan's eagerness to get 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue fixed up to her tastes. It was not just that the incoming First Lady had toured the White House with the man who is evidently to be the First Decorator, Los Angeles Interior Designer Ted Graber. At a Georgetown party, she told a Carter aide that when she and her husband leave the mansion, as her "legacy" they will move before Inauguration Day, to give their successors an early start on revamping the family quarters. Not surprisingly, and despite denials by Reagan spokesmen, Carter partisans took that...