Word: troika
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...powerful troika takes charge, while Haig overdoes it-once more The first reactions were shock, horror, sickness at the thought that the nation had to go through it all once more. Then almost instantly came anxiety -not only for the wounded President but for the country itself. As citizens all over the U.S. and indeed around the world waited for the medical bulletins, questions formed: Did, and would, the U.S. still have a functioning Government? Could decisions still be made, necessary actions be taken, while a President in office little more than two months, barely enough time...
...called troika at the top consists of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Reagan's closest personal aide. Within half an hour of the shooting, the troika set up a kind of command post at the hospital, and once the President was recuperating funneled briefing papers to him (greatly condensed to avoid taxing his strength...
...least the rest of Reagan's hospitalization and the early period of his convalescence, the troika's power will be greater than ever. They will decide who I sees the President, which decisions I are referred to him and which are I postponed or settled at lower lev- els. They will also be the primary communicators of Reagan's words and wishes to the rest of the Government and the outside world...
...third member of the staff troika, Michael Deaver, joins them. The three advisers have already had their own breakfast meeting and participated in a larger gathering of two dozen staffers, refining plans for the day and the near future. Now Reagan and the trio talk in clipped sentences as they exchange papers. Reagan asks Meese about a pending investigation. "Don't we have to goose them a bit?" Reagan inquires. "Gee, it's been going on for two years...
DIED. Alexei Kosygin, 76, longtime Soviet Premier who with Leonid Brezhnev and Nikolai Podgorny formed the "troika" that wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964; of a heart attack; in Moscow (see WORLD...