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...William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members are not flamboyant, they are competent. If they are no longer revolutionary, they are spurred on by the conviction that they have made a difference that must now be preserved...
Peres' austerity measures were considerably more popular in Washington, where the Reagan Administration has been pressuring Israel for economic reforms in return for $1.5 billion in supplementary aid for fiscal year 1985-86. Secretary of State George Shultz praised Peres for his "courage and foresight," and called the reform package "an important step forward in Israel's continuing efforts to stabilize its economy...
When the Administration began negotiating for the 39 TWA hostages, President Reagan publicly assured the families of the long-missing seven that the Administration had not given up on their relatives' release. "We insist," said Secretary of State George Shultz later in the week, "on the return of our hostages, all 46 of them, immediately, unharmed and unconditionally...
...Despite Shultz's statement, that was never a very real hope. Apparently, neither Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia then holding the 39 TWA hostages, nor Syrian President Hafez Assad was able to deliver the seven. "They didn't have access to them," said one U.S. official last week. It also became clear to Washington that if the President insisted on the release of all 46, it would not even get the TWA 39. Said one U.S. official ruefully: "Sometimes policymakers have to decide on the greatest good for the greatest number...
...hostages out of Beirut and into Damascus, where the U.S. has a well-staffed embassy that would be dealing with a full-fledged government. (The Lebanese government, in which Berri is Minister of Justice, exists to a great extent only on paper.) Assad had been in contact with both Shultz and Reagan and promised to try to play a helpful role. Since his troops occupy strategic portions of Lebanon, he has influence with all factions in that nation's internal wars...