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...gambit. Says Mark Emond, editor of the authoritative oil publication the Lundberg Letter: "It takes a huge credit line; it takes a relationship, or influence, or something." In other words, it is quite easy to cut fuel prices if you have political clout, a large credit line and access to a bankrupt oil refinery. It also helps if your name is Kennedy...
Bush's New Hampshire nemesis is irascible, archconservative William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. Though the state's largest daily has lost some of its clout, it still packs a powerful below-the-belt punch. Scarcely an edition goes by without Loeb's patting Reagan on the back while he attacks Kennedy and Bush. Contending in a frontpage article that ex-CIA agents are working in Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed...
...repeated charges and investigations have already begun to erode the Treasury Secretary's effectiveness as the nation's chief financial officer. Normally affable and confident, Miller has become truculent and testy after spending distracting hours huddling with his lawyer and countering questions by reporters. Policy clout is now beginning to drift away from the Treasury Department. Since Miller took office six months ago, his top deputies for domestic and international economic affairs have both resigned...
...Rhodesia Viscounts in September 1978 and February 1979. But Nkomo feels sure that the whites will eventually "forgive and forget." He may be right. A growing number of whites, led by former Prime Minister Ian Smith, believe that Nkomo is the only black leader with the charisma and political clout to pull the shattered pieces of Rhodesia together again. Said one white businessman who met him in Salisbury last week: "Politically speaking, Joshua makes the Bishop look like a choirboy...
...week in the continuing drama of TV-radio preaching, one of the most successful and controversial enterprises in American religion. Humbard's program was performed for the 37th and splashiest annual meeting of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a trade association for 900 programmers. As if to underscore their clout, President Carter dropped by minutes before Humbard's tapes rolled to mend election-year fences with his fellow Evangelical Protestants. He thus became the latest presidential contender to seek NRB members' favor. But, mostly, the NRB convention air hummed with talk of stations bought and sold, minicams, marketing...