Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...longer over Poland and the U.S. economy once again lurched out of control. But Washington can be a parochial town where people and power are concerned, and week after week the anticipation had been building. Résumés flowed into the drab transition headquarters. FBI agents conducted background checks. There was feverish speculation in the corridors of the bureaucracy, as well as in the daily accounts of newspapers and TV news broadcasts. But when the moment came for Ronald Reagan to announce his first eight selections for Cabinet-level jobs, it was an understated affair. The President-elect...
Still, the very lack of color-in the ceremony and in the group-said something important about the Administration that Reagan is putting together against a background of threatened economic and international crisis. Only one of the eight, Michigan Congressman David Stockman, stands out-for youth (he is 34) and for passionately held views. He is a self-described fanatic in his devotion to minimal Government and supply-side economics (which basically means stimulating the economy by cutting personal income taxes and prompting more business investment). As director of the Office of Management and Budget, he should put some ginger...
...fellow students, but he does recognize that many undergraduates did. "There were comments made as I walked out of the hearings. They called me pig, said that I was selling out to the establishment." Others questioned what he, of all people--"a minority with a very poor background"--was doing in the CRR meeting room on the penthouse floor of Holyoke Center, "sitting around with all these white gentlemen...
...from Western Europeans for his stress on strengthening the NATO alliance. Says a top West German defense official: "The man is quite simply the best that Washington has ever sent us." Haig was considered for Secretary of Defense, but that post traditionally goes to a person with a civilian background...
...survived a motion of no confidence. The accused Minister belongs to the National Religious Party, whose twelve Knesset votes are essential to the survival of Begin's coalition. The charges against Abuhatzeira have renewed tensions between the country's politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews, of European background, and the Sephardic Jews, from the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Abuhatzeira is from the Sephardic community, which sometimes feels it is a second-class society within Israel. Wrote Nissim Gaon, president of the World Sephardi Federation, to the Jerusalem Post: "The feeling that there are two societies...