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...deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, though Meany & Co. had expressed a clear preference...
...Frank Press, echo statements that he has been making for nearly two decades as an adviser to Government agencies on subjects ranging from space missions to earthquake prediction. As head of the department of earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Press has always had some clout in Washington. But not as much as he will soon have with the Carter Administration. The President has named Press, 52, his science adviser, and by doing so revealed the depth of his own commitment to arms control; Press, in addition to his other credentials, is one of the world...
...party system by encouraging minor party candidates and independents. Opponents also argue that big cities-and their minority groups-would lose some of their present political power. The cities now often decide how large states cast their electoral votes. In a direct vote, the cities would still have clout, but their relative power would decline. Then, too, small states and the less populated regions of the country would no longer be guaranteed a role-however minor-in determining who would live in the White House...
...chairman of the House Interior Committee, Mo Udall has clout where it counts, and he used it. Last week he joined the contingent of irate Arizona officials, including Governor Raul Castro, who appeared in Washington to press the case for CAP. For 40 years, the state has been battling to tap the Colorado. Without the water, says Udall, with his customary flair, Tucson and Phoenix "are going to dry up and blow away...
...most is Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, the German-born Bendix Corp. president, who seemed to have been recruited by Carter for his drive and expertise in foreign commerce; he had been an effective international trade negotiator in the Kennedy Administration. Even before Strauss's nomination, Blumenthal's clout in the new Administration had appeared to be limited by the presence of two other heavyweights in economic policy: Charles Schultze, Carter's chief economic adviser, and Bert Lance, his Budget Director and trusted crony from Georgia...