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...brilliance of Axman David Stockman, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, has dazzled the Washington Establishment and led to reports that Regan is a diminished, foundering figure. He does not seem that way. Like a wise division commander, he is moving to meld Stockman, the aggressive strike force chief, into an overall economic command structure that in the end will reflect nothing so much as the will and mind of President Ronald Reagan...
...Reagan Cabinet remained split on the question. Brock, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis told a Senate subcommittee that they favor some voluntary slowing of Japanese car imports. Opposing trade restrictions are the Administration's top economic officials: Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Budget Director David Stockman and Chief Economist Murray Weidenbaum. The President last week postponed a final decision in hopes of forging a compromise between the two groups while seeking concessions from the American auto industry on wages, investment and quality control...
Verba, too, emphasized CUE's importance in the curriculum review, calling the committee "the key institution for this project." But Verba declined to comment on specifics of the curriculum review, saying only that he was "not the David Stockman of the undergraduate curriculum...
PRESIDENT REAGAN has carried his budget-slashing campaign further than anyone--probably including himself--had expected. Egged on by the likes of Budget Director David A. Stockman and under pressure to make up for his outrageous tax-cut promises, Reagan has asked Congress to eliminate or cripple many valuable programs and agencies, including several that support higher education. The legislators must refuse the president's reckless proposals and instead consider ways the government can help ensure the future health of colleges and universities...
...time when economic policy is being geared to reducing the degree of Government intervention in the marketplace." Reagan Cabinet members now favoring relief for Detroit are: Brock, Lewis, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge and Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan. The free traders lined up against them are: Weidenbaum, Budget Director David Stockman and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Secretary of State Alexander Haig at first did not take a position, but he eventually opposed restrictions on the grounds that they could disrupt international commerce and cause serious diplomatic repercussions...