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...discover that the Commerce portfolio gives her relatively little Cabinet clout. Reason: Treasury, State and other departments impinge heavily on Commerce territory in vital economic matters, from international trade to fiscal and monetary policy. She will have an opportunity to influence the Administration, however, as a member of the Economic Policy Board, which meets daily to advise the President...
...indestructible that nobody was prepared for his departure. Some 15 candidates are already scrambling to replace him. A special election will be held within six months, and in the meantime, an acting mayor will be selected by the city council. Daley's successor will not have comparable clout since he will undoubtedly be denied the top party job that Daley held. Says Political Scientist Milton Rakove of the University of Illinois' Circle Campus: "The politburo takes over now. They won't let anyone have that kind of power again." For better or worse, Richard Daley was probably...
...biggest effort will be to rejuvenate his broad-based, pro-American, free-enterprise party, which has governed Japan continuously since 1955. As a first step toward a comeback, Fukuda intends to name a committee to study party reform. One problem it will surely discuss is how to curb the clout of the half-dozen major factions-led by aging, godfather-like powerbrokers-that have traditionally controlled the L.D.P. Fukuda has promised to dissolve his own 78-man bloc as an example to others. Yet his first appointments to top party and Cabinet posts last week seemed carefully deferential to factional...
...Daily News (circ. 374,000) learned of the Observer's predicament and got his own paper's approval to combine forces on the story. Green, 35, and another News reporter. Rob Warden, 36, started probing this month. Local lips unbuttoned. Says Hettinger: "The Daily News had enough clout that people opened up like Niagara Falls...
Chirac is looking to the legislative elections now scheduled for March 1978. If his clout is decisive in blocking the left from achieving a majority in Parliament, Chirac, the strongman of the majority, will overshadow Giscard and quite possibly unseat him in the 1981 presidential election. At the very least, he has already rekindled the potent mystique of Charles de Gaulle...