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...position of clout," one Biology professor says of the associate deanship. He notes that Dowling has had rely on his diplomacy and ability to persuade to get his way on certain issues, because ultimate power rests with Rosovsky and the separate departments...
...Administration's steely Latin policy has primarily been the doing of Clark and Kirkpatrick. Now the clout of both is diminished. No liberal conspiracy has subverted President Reagan, but the Administration's moderates have indeed moved toward control of foreign policymaking. True, Weinberger, an unswerving hawk and Reagan intimate, remains feisty and powerful. But Clark will not be lumbering into the Oval Office every day, instinctively pushing Cap's and Kirkpatrick's schemes. The flow of ideas into the White House under McFarlane, a cool technocrat, will surely be more orderly, and perhaps more balanced...
When Clark finally called her to tell of his move, Kirkpatrick urged him to reconsider. She feared there would be no one left in the Administration with clout enough to pull together American policy around the globe. Secretary of State George Shultz, she felt, was too absorbed in international economic policy, East-West issues and crisis management in the Middle East to develop strategy elsewhere. Until now, she and her hard-line allies, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey, had been able to fill the gap, but only because Clark listened to them-and Reagan listened...
...agents of U.S. "special services" such as those aboard KAL, flight 007. The question is more Soviet priorities and capabilities. The Soviet Union suffers low internal morale and economic stagnation. The technology gap widens every year. Japan has passed the USSR as the world's second industrial producer. Military clout and "defense of the gains of socialism" are all the Party can brag about. Military might surrounding poverty, with patriotism upholding a ramshackle empire (even if the radars don't work) is a mixture as Russian as black bread. So is astute diplomacy and propaganda to manipulate and divert...
...Newspapers in competition want to be perceived as having clout and impact. The perception of clout might add to readership." That kind of endorsement sounds like reason enough to forget Finnegan. And the Globe. despite admirable restraint, is guilty of a similar small view Clout and influence. playing the percentages, all the pragmatic technicalities of politics have been the obsession of both papers...