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Until recently, the U.S. has played a limited role in the Lebanese crisis. America's diplomatic clout has of necessity been limited. Because of the U.S. relationship with Israel, there was no prospect of discussing truce plans with the Palestinians, who are not only key participants in the struggle but also a central issue as far as the Lebanese Christians are concerned; they resented the fact that the 320,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon had so much power. Beyond that, Washington has not had its top representative in Beirut since January: Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley is on sick leave recovering...
...Mayor Richard Daley. His Honor, aiming to be a major broker at the convention, has filed slates of candidates committed to a favorite son, Senator Adlai Stevenson III. The Senator is not actively stumping, but so magic is his name in Illinois-and so great is Daley's clout-that Stevenson should pick up at least 90 delegates, whom the mayor will control...
Psychological Clout. With his own rebels under control, Wilson is in no imminent danger from the official opposition, either. Winning Labor's seat in Coventry would have given the Tories considerable psychological clout, but not enough to try for a no-confidence vote that might force Wilson to resign and call for new elections. To swing that, the Tories would have to line up all the votes of the 13 Liberals, eleven Scottish and three Welsh nationalists, and the twelve Ulster M.P.s...
...hazardous standoff continues there is a strong chance that the encounters between Icelandic gunboats and British frigates may cause a fatal accident. Should one Icelandic sailor die government officials warn, public opinion may demand a break with NATO Such a break would both please and enhance the political clout of the Communist-oriented "People's Alliance," which has eleven seats in Reykiavik's 1,000-year-old Parliament. It might also benefit the Soviet Union, whose trawlers, during the cod war with Britain have scrupulously observed Iceland's 200-mile fishing limit...
Normally, this group has little clout. Though they grumble to class agents and occasionally send off a letter to a dean, their complaints rarely reach more than a handful of people at the University, much less the world at large. It is rare indeed for a respectable American magazine to allow an old alum to fill its pages with nostalgic gripes. But since Harper's let Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. '57 (one of the magazine's contributing editors) write such a piece for them, and since they made it the cover story of their March issue, and gave...