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State Department Correspondents Johanna McGeary and Gregory Wierzynski found that normally friendly sources were edgy at first, though by week's end several high-ranking policy-makers became more accessible. Wierzynski also met twice with Cover Subject William Clark, and with U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Clark took time for two sessions with White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, including a quiet dinner late in the week to discuss his role as National Security Adviser in the events. On Capitol Hill, Correspondents Evan Thomas and Christopher Redman covered the House's passage of the bill to cut off funds...
...urging of National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan has been placing greater emphasis on Central America in recent months. He has toughened his public pronouncements and made significant changes in the State Department hierarchy. This has caused concern in Congress that he is stressing a military approach too strongly. The purpose of the Kissinger Commission is, ostensibly, to give advice on long-term American policy in Central America and help coalesce public support for these goals. But despite its somewhat vague mandate, it has a clear-cut political purpose: justifying the deeper extended commitment...
...idea of a bipartisan commission on Central America was promoted by Kirkpatrick. She discussed it in February with two Democrats on Capitol Hill, Senator Henry Jackson of Washington and Congressman Michael Barnes of Maryland, and they sponsored resolutions calling for such a panel. Despite its success in using blue-ribbon groups to handle the hot issues of Social Security reform and the MX missile, the White House was skeptical at first. But by the end of June, after Reagan's own speeches failed to galvanize support for his policies, the idea began to sound better. "We're going...
...Kirkpatrick, who is the President's representative on the commission, is expected to be one of its driving forces. In a speech last week, she stressed that Communist regimes "can be overturned" and the spread of Marxism should not be considered irreversible. Robert Strauss, the blunt Texan who is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is likely to be the most prominent voice from outside the Administration among the appointed members. When phoned on Sunday night and offered the position, Strauss, who served as President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East, turned...
foreign policy line; former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady, a quintessential Eastern Establishment Republican; retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who is known for his nonideological legal approach; Political Analyst Richard Scammon, a neoconservative Democrat and close friend of Kirkpatrick's; AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, a Democrat who holds generally conservative foreign policy views but whose sensitivity to human rights has been accented by the murder of two labor representatives in El Salvador; National Federation of Independent Business President Wilson Johnson, a moderately conservative Republican from San Mateo, Calif.; and Project HOPE Founder and President William Walsh...