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...foreign emissaries who over-anxiously try to predict the new Administration's policies. For example, after sev eral meetings with Reagan advisers, a group of El Salvadoran businessmen went home with the erroneous impression that Reagan had decided to send military aid to help their nation's centrist government fight leftist guerrillas. To prevent further miscues, Allen warned Reagan's 120 defense and foreign policy advisers to be cautious in their conversations with reporters and visitors from overseas...
...leader of a center-right majority coalition (134 of 250 seats) composed of his own Social Democrats along with rightist Christian Democrats and monarchists. Determined to strengthen his power to amend Portugal's Marxist constitution by electing a more like-minded President, Sá Carneiro opposed respected centrist President António Ramalho Eanes in this week's elections. His candidate, General Soares Carneiro, was an obscure rightist whose main credential for office seemed to be the conservative ideas that he shared with Sá Carneiro's Democratic Alliance...
...conservative California Republican and the centrist Georgia Democrat are locked in a dead-even struggle that could affect the role of the Federal Government in domestic affairs, create a clean split in political philosophy between the two major parties, profoundly affect the nation's economy and energy directions, and deeply influence the role America plays on the global stage, thus raising the prospect of increased international tension...
...public opinion poll shows him 33 percentage points ahead of his closest rival. But his mandate is less clear among Labor M.P.s, who will vote for one of several contenders. Abrasive and impatient, Healey has alienated Labor's left, part of its right and even some centrist union leaders. Says a former Cabinet colleague: "Denis is like a Sherman tank blasting opposition...
Dixon, 53, a hearty, backslapping professional politician, was first elected a state representative at age 22 and has since served as state senator, state treasurer and now secretary of state. All together he has won 14 primaries and 13 general elections. Dixon, who calls himself a centrist, supports the Equal Rights Amendment, which is stalled three states short of final approval, but opposes extending the deadline for ratification beyond June 30, 1982. He backs SALT II but with substantial reservations...