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...over both the Cabinet and the army (see box). That double duty made the Soviet-trained World War II veteran the second most powerful man in the government after Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Jaruzelski, who has a reputation as a tough military professional as well as a staunch party loyalist, wasted no time in taking command. His predecessor had hardly cleaned out his desk when the general sacked two Deputy Premiers and five of 40 Cabinet ministers, many of whom were holdovers from the regime of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek...
...Cabinet reshuffle drew differing analyses from Western observers. Foreign policy experts in Bonn see Jaruzelski as an orthodox party loyalist whose rise presages direct action by the Polish armed forces if the labor situation deteriorates further. U.S. State Department analysts, pointing to Jaruzelski's past reluctance to use force against strikers, predict that he will support Kania's relatively moderate policy toward the unions. If that happens, Kania will have gained a valuable counterweight in his struggle against extreme hard-liners like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski who have been arguing for an immediate crackdown. Finally, Jaruzelski is trusted...
...caring for the White House was palpable. The ambitious, driven man clearly regretted leaving the place. And his regret somehow gave credence to an astonishing conversation that he had with one of his senior aides shortly after the election. The President asked if it were possible to install a loyalist as head of the Democratic National Committee so that Carter could maintain some measure of control. As the man listened in disbelief, the President told him-in unmistakable terms-that he might want to be a candidate for the job again...
Reagan's choice for No. 2 at the State Department, William Clark, is a Republican loyalist from California who worked for Reagan when he was Governor and was eventually elevated by Reagan to the state supreme court. Clark is worried lest his departure from the California court leave a vacancy that Governor Jerry Brown might fill with a liberal jurist, further tipping the court's balance toward the left. For Deputy Treasury Secretary, Reagan's more conservative supporters are urging the appointment of New York Drug Store Magnate Lewis Lehrman, an outspoken proponent of a return...
...successful dentist in Charleston, S.C.; a Reagan loyalist since 1964; and, from 1975 to 1979, he served as the first Republican Governor of South Carolina in a century. He has little experience in the energy field. But James Burrows Edwards, 53, has one major credential for the job of Secretary of Energy. He is a protégé of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who with other Southern Republicans had been complaining that Reagan had not appointed anyone from their region to his Cabinet. Edwards would like nothing better than to be unemployed by 1982, when he hopes...