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Considered as a group, Reagan's Cabinet selections are dominated by solid conservatives who are respected more for their accomplishments than their ideologies. The President-elect seems to be trying to assemble a team that would please, if not delight, both the party's moderates and its right-wingers. But the struggle to find the right mix - and men who could accept the jobs - was the first patch of trouble that the Californian has encountered since his surge to win the election. Ronald Reagan got a whiff last week of what life in Washington will be like...
Ronald Reagan wants to try a modern version of Cabinet Government. If he is lucky, he will have a loyal Ickes or two in his group. The larger question is whether he can in some fashion duplicate Roosevelt's management of strong people in difficult jobs. The most encouraging sign is that Reagan wants to try. The second good omen is that he plans to set the direction from the top and trust his people to take care of the details while achieving his goals. Whether or not he holds full Cabinet meetings, none at all, or gathers supercommittees...
...addition, the Reagan group has been embarrassed by misunderstandings on the part of foreign emissaries who over-anxiously try to predict the new Administration's policies. For example, after sev eral meetings with Reagan advisers, a group of El Salvadoran businessmen went home with the erroneous impression that Reagan had decided to send military aid to help their nation's centrist government fight leftist guerrillas. To prevent further miscues, Allen warned Reagan's 120 defense and foreign policy advisers to be cautious in their conversations with reporters and visitors from overseas...
Nonetheless, there have been worried meetings at both the sponsors' headquarters and the networks. Says Bonn O'Brien at CBS: "We don't feel any one group has the right to decide what programs we put on the air." Says another corporate executive: "The real fear is that this will take hold and spread. If the conservative right and the Sunday television ministers take this up as a cause, you will find that we are more than upset...
...entire town in their image. Twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe, in the Ortiz Mountains, lies the hamlet of Madrid (pop. 250). Until 1955, the community scraped together a living from nearby coal mines, but when the coal business fizzled, Madrid faded away. In 1975 an enterprising group of outsiders began buying the hillsides and the abandoned, ramshackle miners' cottages. Today the sound of power saws and drills echoes through the valley as the new pioneers rebuild their ghost town. Melvin Johnson, 45, a former instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, owns 15 acres and runs...