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Carter's problems, if any, may be less with his people than the way he proposes to use them. Instead of naming a chief of staff and creating a well-defined pecking order, Carter plans to give his top half-dozen assistants free access to the Oval Office. If that proves to be too inefficient, the betting is that Jordan or Lipshutz will emerge as the head man. In his favor, Lipshutz has his years, his avuncular manner and his legal savvy. He will preside over the morning staff meetings...
...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 interests. Scoffs Yohei Kono...
...private citizen ever had-a successful suit for damages caused by the official acts of a U.S. President. But Halperin, then 35, a Yale-trained former staffer on the National Security Council, was furious at learning that the FBI had tapped his telephone. He filed suit against the half-dozen top officials whom he felt had to be held responsible. He even sued the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Last week Morton Halperin won a resounding victory that could cost his tappers, starting with President Nixon, nearly $1 million in damages...
Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
...About a half-dozen members of the ad hoc committee are still at Harvard, including Stuart E. Peskoe '76, now a first-year graduate student in Engineering and Applied Physics and still an active advocate of CRR reform...