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Already he has created a mellower mood among Democrats. Although identified with the conservative Texas faction, he has pledged not to try to repeal the reforms that have given greater clout to minorities, women and young people. He announced that he would fill nine of the committee's 25 at-large posts with blacks-not a matter of quotas, he insists, but recognition of the heavy black Democratic vote in November. He backed Oregon State Chairman Caroline Wilkins for vice chairman over the wives of prominent politicians. "I want a strong, visible woman," says Strauss, "not just somebody...
...Assembly resolutions made little difference because the 97-nation majority-which together pays only 14% of the U.N.'s dues-lacks the clout to follow through. Its leaders are well aware that the current diplomatic moves toward détente have taken place outside the U.N. Brazil's Ambassador to the U.S., J.A. de Araujo Castro, spoke for many Third World leaders recently when he observed, "It is a fact that the U.N. is becoming irrelevant on matters of peace and security, and runs the risk of being converted into a sort of international institute of technology...
...legend. But last week the Federal Trade Commission accused Xerox of having another, darker side. In a complaint charging that the company has illegally monopolized the $1.7 billion copier industry, the FTC said that Xerox has, among other things, ruthlessly stamped out smaller competitors, used its ill-gained market clout to suck in outsize profits from customers, and sought to perpetuate its priceless patents by reregistering slightly different versions of those about to expire...
...country, overcome by progress and competition from rich, efficient multibranch banking firms that are headquartered in big cities. In recent years, despite some Government constraints on bank expansions, the spread of large institutions to the suburbs and small towns has substantially quickened, investing major banks with ever more financial clout and raising howls from small bankers. As a result, the old arguments over how banking can best serve the economy and the public have burst into a controversy that will soon reach the Supreme Court and the Congress...
Ultimately the government rejected a limited agreement by Popkin to answer some of the questions it had posed Its attorneys knew they dealt from a position of strength and so they brought down the clout of intimidation even harder...