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...course, that was precisely why he was picked for the job. After Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt called Watt to his office and sized him up, he excitedly phoned the President-who had never set eyes on the keen lawyer-and said he had found just the right man. Watt was razor smart, Laxalt told the President, a steely manager who knew his field. Best of all, Laxalt declared, Watt could take pressure: he had the hide of a rhino...
Striding into Geneva's mustard-colored Palais des Nations to make its debut at the annual session of the 43-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission, the crisp new U.S. delegation was received with keen anticipation. The assembled delegates were waiting to hear the first formal expression of the Reagan Administration's sharp break with the Carter human rights policy...
This policy began to evolve in December, when Richard Allen and Jeane Kirkpatrick, two Reagan advisers with a keen interest in Latin America, told the President-elect that El Salvador would likely be his first testing ground...
...criticism that she has failed to cut public spending. We all wish we had cut it earlier and deeper. The problem is that everyone in your political party is very keen on cutting public spending as long as you don't touch their own particular hobbyhorse. We would have been able to cut it much faster and sharper if we hadn't honored the Clegg tribunal [to raise salaries of public service employees to make them comparable with the private sector]. That was an enormous increase. This year the pay to civil servants, local government, nurses...
Given a sympathetic new President with a keen interest in the subject, this impressive chorus of discontent will probably inspire the appointment of study commissions and the production of all kinds of reports, analyses and perhaps even proposals for change. But what action is apt to occur? Is any important rearrangement of the powers of federal and state governments likely? The prevailing suspicion is voiced by Michigan's Republican Lieutenant Governor James Brickley: not confident that anything substantial can be done...