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...immediate problem is to perk up his now slumbering campaign. He is still coasting on his familiar rhetoric; his aides have not supplied him with either fresh ideas or language for the coming battle. Since Campaign Manager John Sears was fired in February, no one has acquired enough clout to give the candidate firm instructions. Sears' replacement, William Casey, is gradually working into his job, but it takes a long time to win Reagan's confidence. This week state and regional coordinators are meeting with Casey in Los Angeles to try to get organized for the fall...
CHICAGO: POLITICAL CLOUT...
Chicago's blacks have never enjoyed so much political clout. Now 40% of the city's population, the 1.2 million blacks helped defeat the late Mayor Richard Daley's selected heir, Michael Bilandic, and thus gave Jane Byrne a tenuous hold on city hall in 1979. A black will probably run for mayor in 1983. Blacks head the city's finance committee and the school board, and the city police department is now 23% black...
...A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses over the air waves, the association will probably not act against them. After all, why cut down a group of emerging celebrities who are beginning to give the profession more clout with the public? Says Lee Salk, resident psychologist on ABC's Good Morning, America: "There's a tremendous demand for responsible professionals to use the media. If they don't, other people will...
...decency to go along with a good intellectual capacity. He'll be tough with the Soviets, both in getting a deal and sticking to it." Says Carter: "Ed Muskie doesn't have to come to me to make sure I prop him up." He will have enough clout, continued the President, "not to be eaten alive by the State Department bureaucracy before his feet are on the ground...