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...private life, was one of the reasons that Reagan had so much difficulty in filling several of his Cabinet seats. His transition team is having similar trouble finding people for the 2,700 top-and middle-level posts that are not covered by Civil Service. Says a Reagan staffer: "High-level officials are embarrassingly underpaid for the work that they do, and that has made it much harder for us to get some of the people that we want." The Carter Administration had the same difficulties. Says a member of the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries, which recently...
Meese never seems harried and rarely seems to mind when staff members interrupt him. Reports TIME Correspondent Walter Isaacson, after observing Meese in action: "Every time his door opened, there was a staffer sticking his head in with a brief request. 'Sure, no problem,' Meese says over and over...
...bitter Democratic staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee said yesterday, "With Reagan in the White House and the Republicans on top in the Senate, Helms knows this kind of bill will be a cinch next year...
...Amnesty International staffer, Josh Rubinstein, told the councilors that they might be able to persuade city officials around the world to cease human rights violations and plead the cases of city officials held as political prisoners...
Some news organizations have gone to great lengths to chronicle the family stories. The New York Post wanted to fly the Morefields to Wiesbaden, West Germany, if a Post staffer could go with them. One family turned down $10,000 and travel expenses to West Germany from a "media corporation of international reputation, definitely not a scandal sheet," in exchange for exclusive story rights. LIFE has offered to pay the airfare to the reunion for the five brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston...