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...November because he has courted the Catholic vote. "Nixon has done everything but serve Mass," Troy says. Ted Kennedy's motives were harder to read. In fact, Kennedy has kept the possibility of a candidacy this year alive until now in order to hang on to as much clout as possible, inside the Senate and out. Only last week, he appeared with House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills to push his compulsory national health-insurance plan, and Teddy was all over television plugging his new book on the subject...
...hopes were greatly bolstered last week when Yasuhiro Nakasone, head of the party's executive committee, pledged his faction's support to their man. For his part, Fukuda is receiving strong behind-the-scenes support from Sato, who despite his graceless exit from office retains considerable political clout and is devoting his last days in office to boosting the successor of his choice...
...were an expectable bit of Chinese political etiquette. He has, in fact, been carefully grooming his son to take over Taiwan's top job some day. Last week the national assembly routinely confirmed Chiang Ching-kuo as Premier. In that job, nongovernment observers hope, he may have the clout to carry out his promises to 1) attack the bureaucratic inefficiency that has tarnished the island republic's record of progress and prosperity, and 2) bring more native Taiwanese into the government. No one, though, doubts that the generalissimo will still have the final say on major decisions...
Second, either as an alternative or, preferably, as an additional policy, the University could use its not inconsiderable moral and political clout in the united States to support the lobby against repression in States to support the lobby against repression in Southern Africa. I could use its official publications to raise the issue with its vast and influential alumni, encouraging them to take a stand against the Portuguese and South African regimes...
...Senior Vice President Gerrity, 48, a onetime columnist for the Scranton Times, joined the company in 1958. For a publicist, the generally affable Gerrity wields unusual clout. He is in charge of all ITT's advertising and public and Government relations and is a member of the 12-man management policy committee, headed by Geneen. He confers every day with Geneen, travels with him and acts as a sort of privy counselor. Geneen will say to Gerrity: "Here's what we've been thinking of doing. How will it sound? What can we say?" Last year...