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...economic battles of 1981 were being fought and won, a spirit of unity and purpose infused the Administration. This has now been replaced by a sense of drift and uncertainty, marked by fissures in the troika of top presidential advisers, internecine foreign policy disputes, and ill-conceived actions that are raising questions about the Administration's sensitivity to issues of fairness and racial justice. The President compounded the uneasiness by projecting, with amiable vacuity, an unsteady hand on the tiller of state at his seventh press conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation...
...Washington Post and to Allen himself. As an internal White House matter, the effects of Clark's arrival could be substantial. With Meese's foreign policy role diminished and Deaver planning to resign in a year, Clark might become a member of the President's troika of top advisers...
...most problems, however, particularly the complex nonideological ones, Reagan does rely heavily on his advisers and, above all, on the troika. It is an approach that enabled the Administration to display enormous drive and decisiveness in its early months. But it also has serious flaws...
...troika cannot always keep an eye on everything, and when it lets an issue slip by, the result can be chaos. Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, charged with developing a program to keep Social Security solvent, last May produced with Stockman's help a proposal to reduce sharply the future growth of pensions for people who retire at age 62. It was rushed to the White House on a weekend so that it could be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Monday morning, and an Administration position could then be presented at congressional hearings on Social Security. Meese...
Ratzinger did not always see things that way. During the Second Vatican Council he was the most eloquent member of a troika of progessive German theological experts (with Karl Rahner and Hans Küng). In that era the reform-minded priest called the office he will now head "detrimental to the faith." By the 1970s, however, he gradually came to question the church's leftward drift. He warned against accepting "tenets merely because they happen to be fashionable at the moment." In 1975 he called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people...