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Returning from his vacation, President Reagan announces a cabinet shakeup. "My inner circle will be replaced by my outer circle," Reagan said, explaining that he had "heard every joke Meese, Baker and Deaver know two or three times...
Watson and linemates Greg Olson and Greg Chalmers, playing their first game as a unit after Cleary's complete shakeup of lines, managed half a dozen shots on goal in their next shift, but a Camisa glove save of a pop-up and other acts of God prevented a score. In all, Harvard managed 22 third-period shots with Britz's tally the only interest on the deposit. "Too little, too late," said Cleary...
...current Washington rumors has a major shakeup in the foreign policy apparatus in the near future. In a town that has not been receptive to Haig in the past, this news does not bode well. Certainly he could be replaced by another man with comparable qualities. But a change in personnel is rarely desirable and may even set back the administration as it confronts its may foreign policy problems. Instead, if the president is wise and if American is to gain, Alexander Haig will remain Secretary of State...
...moving further to the right. She coolly sacked three of the party grandees in her Cabinet and pushed out the popular Conservative Party chairman, shuffled around six other senior ministers, elevated three loyalists to the Cabinet, then fired four junior ministers. In all, 40 posts were involved in the shakeup. Out went Lord Soames, the leader of the House of Lords, Winston Churchill's son-in-law and a pillar of the Tory establishment, who as the last governor-general of Rhodesia had brought plaudits to the Thatcher government by skillfully guiding the former colony through its elections...
...editor fired during last week's shakeup, the News's revamped strategy was just another example of the editorial schizophrenia that destroyed Tonight. "They are trying to go back downscale now," said she. "But they forget the reason we went upscale is that downscale wasn't working." -By BJ. Phillips. Reported by Janice C. Simpson/New York