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Understanding political changes in China is always difficult, and Western diplomats hope to learn more about Deng's status during a visit to Peking this week by Secretary of State George Shultz. The signs of Deng's declining influence have been proliferating in recent weeks. The Chinese leader's public statements have become few and Delphian, and though he is frequently quoted in the press, most of the citations are from speeches he made at least four years...
...make changes." Most of Don Regan's assistants, often derided as the "mice," will shortly follow their chief out the White House door. The Cabinet is a tougher problem. The present members most criticized by the Tower panel are the least likely to go: Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...Tower commission blamed Shultz and Weinberger, the two most prominent opponents of the Iranian arms sales, for in effect closing their eyes to what was happening. The commission also scored Reagan and his aides for never bothering to consider whether their actions complied with the law; as the chief legal adviser to the President, Meese must bear blame for that. But Shultz says he will not resign, and replacing him would cause more turmoil in foreign policy. Weinberger and Meese are old friends of Reagan's from California days. Replacing lower-ranking Cabinet members unconnected to Iranscam would prove nothing...
...Vice President comes off better than most other top members of the Administration. His participation in the Iran initiative appears to have been minimal: he was present at a meeting with Reagan last year during which the idea of trading arms for hostages was discussed, and, according to George Shultz's account, did not oppose the notion. But he was more generally in favor of the strategy of using arms shipments to establish a relationship with "moderate" elements in Iran. Although Bush is one of four statutory members of the NSC, the conclusion was that he had no management responsibility...
...summary of the report's findings, which was adopted by the Commission last Thursday, said that "given the importance of the initiative, Secretary Shultz and Secretary Weinberger, while indicating their opposition, distanced themselves from the march of events...