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Reagan said he would nominate Kenneth Adelman, deputy to U. N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpalrick, to take Rostow's place He also named David Emery a former Maine congressman to the No 2 post in the agency succeeding Robert Grey. Grey was forced out earlier...
...Rostow, 69, a veteran of Washington power struggles issued a sharply worded statements that implied Reagan had forced his quster in it. Rostow said an recent days it has become clear that the President wished to make changes...
...last week he was celebrating an unofficial White House decision to back away from support for Robert Grey, a career State Department official who had been nominated by Reagan as Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. It was Grey's longtime association with Eugene Rostow, who heads the agency, and his brief service as an administrative assistant to California's liberal Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that inspired Helms to threaten the Senate leadership with a ten-hour filibuster to block confirmation. In Helms' view, even the hawkish President was not selecting tried...
Helms, indeed, was cleverly used by White House aides, who have been unhappy with Rostow's performance as ACDA head. They sought to put him in his place by dumping Grey, even if that should prompt Rostow's resignation. "Rostow drives the West Wing up a wall," says one Administration official, claiming he intrudes into policy issues that do not involve his office and once even sent a written critique to the President about the Administration's Middle East policy. Rostow, who was recuperating from a hip operation in Connecticut, telephoned National Security Adviser William Clark...
With that at stake, the Administration trotted into position its biggest guns. Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, briefed Republicans in the House. Secretary of State George Shultz and National Security Adviser William Clark lobbied individual Congressmen, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger trekked to the Hill to buttonhole members. From Switzerland, retired General Ed Rowny, chief U.S. negotiator at the recently begun Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva, telephoned key Congressmen. And the President chipped in. In an address to the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Conn., Reagan attacked an immediate freeze...