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Meese's loyalty has been repaid. When trouble developed in Reagan's 1980 campaign organization, Campaign Manager John Sears tried to have Meese ousted from Reagan's team of advisers. Reagan would not stand for it, and Sears himself was dumped. After being nominated for Attorney General, Meese faced harsh congressional questions regarding his personal finances. Despite calls to withdraw the nomination, Reagan stuck by his old friend. Now, with serious cracks appearing in his Administration, Reagan has turned once again to his all-purpose...
...benefits, he asserted, were "much lower and much worse" than in other Communist-bloc countries. The national economy was collapsing due to "incompetence, lack of knowledge, the pursuit of private interests and bureaucratic swank and arrogance." Seldom since the heyday of Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement, had such harsh blasts been sounded at a Polish labor conference. But the times they are a'changing: the impassioned orator was chairman of the government-sponsored All-Poland Trade Unions Alliance, and seated behind him was Communist Party Chief Wojciech Jaruzelski, who listened to the blistering broadside with apparent equanimity...
...recent criticisms of American companies, some Administration officials have sounded as harsh as the corporate raiders. Only three weeks ago Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman launched a slashing attack on what he called "corpocracy." By that, Darman said, he meant the tendency of U.S. corporations to become similar to the Government bureaucracies that company executives frequently deplore: "bloated, risk averse, inefficient and unimaginative." Corporate raiders, Darman added, "are gaining attention as a new kind of populist folk hero, taking on not only big corporations but the phenomenon of corpocracy itself...
...harsh enough insult. When South African State President P.W. Botha paid a "private visit" to France last week, he was greeted at Orly Airport not by Premier Jacques Chirac, as diplomatic practice would normally dictate, but by the Foreign Ministry's chief of protocol. Chirac explained the snub by saying that any contact with Botha "would be considered a breach of solidarity with our African friends...
...among the composer's most familiar. The soprano's increasingly raw voice is not entirely suitable to the works of the American period, like the wistful waltz Foolish Heart, from One Touch of Venus. But it is just right for the angry desperation of the Brecht-Berlin years; the harsh, bitter edge to the smoky Surabaya-Johnny proclaims there will be no happy end here...