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During his first four years, the members of Reagan's team performed well enough to help their boss win overwhelming approval from the voters. But now the President is launching his second term with what looks like a wholesale shake-up. At least five of the 13 Cabinet departments will be getting new chiefs; by spring hardly a single member of the top White House domestic- policy staff will remain in place. The changes have come piecemeal, without any carefully thought-out plan or even conscious overall design. Moreover, they are being made at an unpropitious time, when the Administration...
...Government, switching jobs or signaling their desire to depart. Each seemed free to pursue his own quest for personal fulfillment, whether by taking on new challenges, easing into less wearisome tasks or just taking a rest. The President amiably concurred in the wishes of his subordinates. It was a shake-up by the shakers themselves...
...timing of the shake-up was unfortunate. The President's announcement of the Baker-Regan trade came on the very day that Secretary of State George Shultz was completing his meetings with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, clearing the way for a broad resumption of arms-control talks, a breakthrough that stands as one of Reagan's few solid successes in foreign policy. The game of musical chairs partly upstaged the news from Geneva...
...improving human rights record is partly the result of a shake-up in the country's security forces-the National Guard, National Police and Treasury Police-which have been considered the training ground for the death squads. After the chiefs of the three agencies were dismissed, Duarte ordered their successors to report to a newly named Vice Minister of Public Security. He also disbanded the Treasury Police's Section 2 patrols, which were supposed to gather intelligence but often moonlighted as murder crews...
...addition, Salimi and another cashiered minister belong to an ultraconservative Shi'ite Muslim group that has been critical of Khomeini's policies. The shake-up apparently was engineered by Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who believes that such dissent is divisive. Rafsanjani's maneuver may show that in the rivalry between him and President Seyed Ali Khamenei, Rafsanjani is winning. "He has Khomeini's ear," said a senior Iranian official. "By forcing a Cabinet reshuffle, he just demonstrated who is boss...