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...came. The Senator spoke knowingly and graciously through dinner, but he did not even reveal what Colonel North was wearing. Nor will he. There is an iron discipline beneath the rounded Georgia verbs that Nunn uses so precisely. He is as stern a critic as any fellow Democrat of Ronald Reagan's performances these days, but he has not called on the President to fire anybody in the White House ("That's up to the President"). When asked by a reporter if Reagan's staff had been coaching the President to lie to the press and the American people, Nunn...
Some 4.2 million federal employees got the word last week on new imposed guidelines governing tests for drug use. The rules, based on Ronald Reagan's Executive Order of last September calling for drug-free workplaces, were drawn up by the Government's Office of Personnel Management. They stipulate that federal agency and department heads may fire workers in sensitive positions, like those with access to classified information, who are found to be using illegal drugs; discharge is mandatory after two such instances. Affected employees will be notified 30 days in advance that they will be required to take...
Accounts of the Reykjavik summit, albeit dense with rhetoric, tended to stick closer to the facts. If a story continues to have mileage as a propaganda vehicle, however, the Soviets are reluctant to drop it: two months after the Iceland meeting, the press is still explaining why Ronald Reagan's Space Defense Initiative should be curtailed and blaming the U.S. for the arms race...
...Even as Ronald Reagan tried to regain control of events in the most serious crisis of his presidency, new revelations about these secret machinations kept him on the defensive. There seemed no quick way to clear up the mysteries stemming from the Administration's admission two weeks ago that up to $30 million in profits from secret shipments of U.S. arms to Iran had been diverted to support the guerrilla warfare of the U.S.-backed contras against Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government...
Although his nascent presidential campaign lags in the polls, Republican Congressman Jack Kemp has added a big name to his group of advisers. Ed Rollins, political director of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide re-election, will sign on as chairman of Kemp's newly formed "exploratory" campaign committee...