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...savvy aides, which he got during his first term. Right now, though, he is surrounded by inexperienced and unimaginative assistants; one of the brightest members of the current crew, Mitch Daniels, resigned over the weekend. As always, the President is detached from the details of policy and reluctant to crack heads. As a result, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger continue to battle inconclusively about early deployment of SDI while some Cabinet members whisper, unavailingly but unrestrainedly, about a palace revolt against Chief of Staff Donald Regan. One White House official compares the President...
...everyone had forgotten about the coup d'etat Jaruzelski had engineered and about his violent crack-down against Solidarnosc. At the time, Western nations reacted to such outrageous act firmly, isolating Poland politically and levying economic sanctions...
...drugs are apt to be competent, then that would have been one thing. It's just barely conceivable that Nixon's men broke into Watergate because their boss needed a fix, or that Ivan Boesky was just trying to scrape some money together for another vial of crack. But the given rationalization, if any, was simply that drug takers are lawbreakers. Case closed...
While a career in the NHL may be lurking in Taylor's future, he's not thinking about that yet. There are other matters to take care of--10 more regular season games, the ECAC Tournament and (perhaps) another crack at the NCAA Championship...
...years, East-bloc officials have claimed that drug abuse did not exist in their countries, insisting that addiction was a product of "decadent" capitalism. Not anymore. In a dramatic about-face, Soviet and East European authorities have begun to crack down on drug suppliers, searching for ways to treat addicts and publishing an array of statistics to deter potential users. Reason for the turnabout: narcotics use not only exists in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe but is growing rapidly in some areas...