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...second term would entail major changes in personnel as well as policy, and for a President as heavily dependent on his staff as Reagan is, the reshuffle would be extremely consequential. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, a staunch conservative, is already leaving the White House; Reagan formally nominated him last week to be Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker...
...fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Three weeks earlier, Legislative Liaison Kenneth Duberstein quit to join a private lobbying firm. The departure of these two "pragmatists" as well as the expected resignation early next year of Budget Director David Stockman, will leave Baker with only two staunch allies in the White House, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman. That prospect, along with the fatigue of three years in a very demanding job, may be the reason that one of Reagan's steadiest players is flirting with the idea of becoming a free agent...
...letters were not an admission by the party-controlled press that Czechoslovakia, a staunch Moscow ally, opposes the new Soviet missiles. But in their combination of idealism and bitter frustration over the arms race, they revealed that some East Europeans share the anxiety of many of their Western neighbors over the failure of the superpowers to agree on curbs for medium-range nuclear weapons...
Even one of Martin's staunch admirers, Peter s. McKinney, associate dean of the division, says his boss's straightforward approach has been both "a blessing and a curse...
...staunch union man, Cole stayed out on strike and on July 27 was fired for waving a hammer at a busload of strikebreakers. Imrich, a 21-year veteran, held out for 50 days, but on Aug. 21 he crossed the picket line and returned to work. The first time Beverly Cole saw Lolita Imrich after Joe went back, "I just looked at her and said, 'Lolita, you are now a scab,' " she told TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt...