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...Democrats overestimated their own ideological unity and underestimated Ford's clout, particularly in the House, where he served for 25 years, eight as minority leader. In what amounted to a counterattack, he vetoed key Democratic bills that would have raised farm price supports to boost food production, stiffened regulation of strip mining, stimulated the housing industry through subsidies of mortgage interest and would have appropriated $5.3 billion to ease unemployment by creating 1 million public jobs. Each time Ford and his aides mustered enough votes among Republicans and fiscally conservative Southern Democrats to sustain the vetoes in the House...
...Mission Hill, several possibilities could occur. The BRA will probably hold as many community meetings as possible until it determines it can go ahead and hold a board meeting on the project without running headlong into violent community opposition. At that point, largely because the Mission Hill opposition lacks clout with City Hall in this highly political process, the BRA can in the long run give Harvard the go-ahead to break ground...
Fukuda seems to have the clout to put his policies through, and lately he has become something of an economic czar. A veteran financial expert and leader of one of the Liberal Democratic Party's strongest factions, he has served several terms as Finance Minister; he was called on to resume that post by former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka -with whom Fukuda, to put it mildly, did not get along-when the oil crisis broke in late 1973. When financial scandals forced Tanaka to step down last December, the post of Prime Minister fell to the little-known Takeo...
...Turkish side, former Premier Bulent Ecevit parallels the Archbishop's situation. He is backed primarily by workers and intellectuals and pinions the ability of Premier Demirel's fragile coalition to make any firm moves toward compromise. He because a sort of national hero by ordering the display of military clout on Cyprus, and his portrait, tainted by a stiff smile, figures in lurid red, blue and olive posters illustrating the "peace-keeping operations" on the island...
...Moos, formerly president of the University of Minnesota, and installed him as president in the hope that he could raise funds to restore the center to solvency. Hutchins, now 76, ostensibly retired to a cottage on the estate as a salaried "life fellow," but retained considerable behind-the-scenes clout. "I knew I'd have to scramble," says Moos, "but I had no idea the situation was so desperate." In November he reduced the staff from 64 to 39 and pared his budget by 50%, to $1.2 million. In January, 24 more employees were let go, and Moos submitted...