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Shultz countered the diplomatic insurgency by announcing that Hinton's replacement in El Salvador would be Thomas R. Pickering, 51, a distinguished career diplomat who is currently U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Pickering thus becomes the third member of a new diplomatic troika. The other two previously appointed members are L. Anthony Motley, 45, who was Ambassador to Brazil, and Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida, who was sworn in last week as the State Department's special envoy to Central America. Said Shultz: "[Pickering] is the best possible man for the job. We picked...
Once Aloian's troika had gained the approval of a number of Harvard figures, including Bok, other alumni leaders, and Eastern Europe specialists at the university, the president went ahead with the letter to Walesa...
...always. In the inaugural troika of aides-Baker, Ed Meese and Michael Deaver-Reagan seemed to listen to Meese most carefully on policy matters and to Deaver for political and personal advice. Baker mainly ran the shop and deferred to Reagan's two veteran associates. The troika has since become a quartet with the addition a year ago of William Clark as National Security Adviser, who has the dominant voice on foreign policy. But on such crucial domestic issues as the budget and Social Security, Baker has emerged with his hands on the steering wheel, deftly maneuvering Reagan away...
Feldstein has already moved to bolster the influence of the CEA and reassert its in dependence from OMB and the Treasury. Even before his confirmation hearings, Feldstein was busy staking out turf for himself in the interdepartmental policy group known as T-l (for Economic Troika One), which consists of Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Budget Director David Stockman and the chairman of the CEA. In weekly break fast meetings of the group, Feldstein has managed to hold his own in even the most esoteric of budget debates with Stockman, who possessesa daunting reputation for his deft handling of twelve-digit...
...after the Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house," explains Darman. Other core participants: Baker's partners in the White House top troika, Michael Deaver, 44, and Meese; Communications Director David Gergen, 40; Kenneth Duberstein, 38, the Administration's gregarious and highly effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill; Budget Director David Stockman, 35; and Craig Fuller, 31, who coordinates the work of the Cabinet...