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...population explosion gathered force a generation ago, church leaders used all their clout to block the availability of modern contraceptives in the Catholic areas of the developing world. Now these same churchmen tour the globe by jumbo jet, pontificating on the widespread human misery and social chaos they have helped to create...
...OPEC, it was a grudging admission of declining market clout. For oil-consuming nations, it was a turning point that could mark an end to the economic stagnation they have suffered since OPEC first flexed its muscle a decade ago. OPEC'S action, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, is "good news for the U.S. and for the world economy. It will mean less inflation and a strong shot in the arm to the budding economic recovery." Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, estimates that cheaper oil will boost America's real G.N.P. growth rate this year...
Chicago has always been a city of ethnic neighborhoods. Politicians have naturally capitalized on these divisions, building power bases along these lines. The Irish, Polish, Black, and Latino communities have vied for political clout, which has ultimately remained in the hands of the first two, more organized groups...
...country; by his own hand (he hanged himself with his kimono sash); in Sapporo. A colorful country boy who swaggered into the Diet's lower house in 1963, Nakagawa ten years later helped found the Seirankai, a secretive ultratraditional group whose 31 members helped one another gain clout in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including two Cabinet positions for Nakagawa. But after finishing fourth and last in November's election for the party leadership, he slumped into an exhausted depression...
...herding societies of the estimated 1 million Dinka and Nuer tribesmen who roam the Sudd. "But most of the traditional people want to change," contends Jonathan Jenness of the United Nations Development Program. "They don't want to be hungry, sick and uneducated and, most important, without political clout...