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...classified as a liberal. He is a pragmatist in the grand tradition of old Boston politics who recognizes that the first duty of the politican is to get elected and who freely admits his driving ambition to achieve more political power. Still, in a few short weeks his chairmanship has resulted in a series of reforms and--more important--in a positive and businesslike atmosphere which will continue to make the Committee receptive to innovation...
...problem has to do with the chairmanship of the party he rode (or carried) to power, the Christian Democratic Union. Canny old Konrad Adenauer clung to the job even after he stepped down as Chancellor nearly three years ago at the age of 87, and has used the post to embarrass his rotund successor with anti-Erhard maneuverings inside the party. Last month, Adenauer decided at last to give up the C.D.U. chairmanship, hoped to install a candidate sympathetic to his policies, preferably Interior Minister Paul Lücke, in the balloting at the C.D.U. convention next month...
...C.D.U. Party Manager Josef-Hermann Dufhues, 57. But last week Dufhues announced that for "personal" reasons, he would not run for the post. For lack of any other suitable Erhard man, der Dicke last week was grimacing at the prospect that he might have to take over the C.D.U. chairmanship and become a politician in spite of himself...
Meeting in Lagos' gleaming Federal Palace Hotel, the delegates got right down to work under the chairmanship of Sir Abubakar, who had suggested the meeting last month as a way to head off precipitate action by Africa's angry extremists. "We believe the policy we are following," Wilson said, "is right, appropriate, and will be effective." He could point to the fact that British sanctions have already cut Rhodesia's main exports 90% -including sugar, tobacco, copper, chrome, steel and meat. American importers are boycotting Rhodesian asbestos and lithium; Japan banned Rhodesian iron imports starting April...
...many of the program's problems clearly. He often described the archetypal Gen Ed chairman strolling hat in hand to department offices, begging the chairmen to meet their responsibilities. He urged that the committee be strengthened and that Dean Ford take over the chairmanship from him, as he did last week...