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Most of all, it was Blumenthal who last fall finally imposed some order on Carter's chaotic policymaking apparatus. Early in the Administration, programs were supposed to be coordinated...
...traditional opponents advanced their demands for political reforms. On his return to the country, Somoza--who remains under doctor's orders not to work more than three hours a day--dismissed the overly-ambitious officials, but in doing so he exacerbated the internal divisions within the state and military apparatus...
Clearly the FSLN is preparing itself for a post-Somoza political stage, which now appears to be forthcoming. The FSLN runs the risk of being gravely weakened as a political force in that stage unless it secures the right to build a political apparatus (as it already has in the universities) capable of affecting state power and thereby addressing the aspirations of the masses that the FSLN, more than any other movement in Nicaragua, represents. Such an apparatus would translate the popular following of the front into a mass political organization capable of achieving victory through a free electoral process...
During its ten months in office, the Carter Administration has put together an economic policymaking apparatus that often seems to be running a Washington replay of the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine "Who's on first?" As the President and his aides have zigged and zagged-proposing and then abandoning a $50 tax rebate, touting a major tax-reform program, then delaying it and shifting the emphasis to tax cuts-businessmen, brokers and economic forecasters have complained that the Administration's economic voice is muffled and mystifying...
...liberal, anti-war, gay-rights activitist, has assumed the status of favorite, riding the Democratic machine to a commanding lead in the most recent Daily News straw poll. Meanwhile, Cuomo, the centrist candidate who entered the race with the blessings of Gov. Hugh L. Carey's new-formed political apparatus, has watched his support dwindle to the lone endorsement of the Liberal Party--a maverick label that, in light of Cuomo's close association with old-line politicos, is at best incongruous. On the surface, it would seem an interesting race...