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...York State pension fund has not sold any stocks and bonds of U.S. companies doing business in South Africa. Rather, we have been leaders in what you describe as an effective "relentless campaign" of using shareholder petitions to force company withdrawal from that country to protest apartheid. Edward V. Regan New York State Comptroller Albany...
Carlucci, who is known for his aggressiveness and tenacity, has the stature to be an independent force in the White House, one who will not allow himself to be dominated by Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As Ambassador to Portugal when pro-Communist military men took over in 1975, he stood up to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who felt that the U.S. should break with the Lisbon regime. Carlucci urged support for Portugal's moderate left as the best way to ensure the downfall of the Communist hard-liners. He prevailed, and was proved correct...
...thinking has apparently shifted somewhat over the past week. He does not want to be pushed into abrupt firings or show signs of yielding to pressure. He answered with a testy no! to reporters who repeatedly asked him whether he planned to jettison Chief of Staff Donald Regan, and an aide insisted that the President had no plans to sack CIA Director William Casey. But it is now quite probable that both men will be departing from their posts within the next month...
...Regan seems determined to stay on. He held his own session with Congressmen last week in which he claimed the President needed his services in preparing the State of the Union message and with work on the new budget. He appeared to take a certain gritty pride in toughing out the controversy. "I'm really taking the heat now," he said. "It goes with that corner office." A man who clearly cherishes power, Regan is even said to have joked last week about "people who thought they could get rid of me that easily...
...Judith Regan to assume any blame for the situation only serves to undermine her original journalistic duty: to look under the rock and to see what is growing there. Just because her audience doesn’t like what she found doesn’t mean she should apologize. And it definitely doesn’t mean that Rupert Murdoch should get to decide whether or not the American public can see what she found. It’s time for Judith Regan to stop apologizing and to start looking for a boss who can stand behind her in controversy...