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...Politburo dismissals, despite the posters calling for the purge of Wang and Wu? One explanation is that the posters were intended merely as a warning to hard-line supporters of the radical view who are still in the Politburo. Another is that Teng simply did not have the clout to make a clean sweep of his adversaries. Yet another is that the Vice Premier realized that a purge of the radicals would undercut elements of Hua's support-thereby leading to a potentially damaging split at the top level that could endanger his precious modernization program...
...biggest winner in the West last week was, in a sense, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. With his stunning 1.3 million-vote victory over G.O.P. Challenger Evelle Younger, the state's attorney general, Brown greatly enhanced his stature as a politician with national clout and national aspirations...
...contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent impact thus far has been not to strengthen conservatives as such but simply to strengthen incumbents, since the PACS tend to give to officeholders who offer some political clout in Congress. Despite highly visible turnovers in Congress, 96% of the House members were returned to Washington...
...Pennsylvania wage has averaged more than a dollar less than what Detroit's Big Three pay, and VW workers insist on catching up. In sum, the VW workers want at least $10 an hour by 1981. The walkout is the latest sign that labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says one Japanese automan...
...drastic difference from the 1920s is that Munsonians no longer control their own town. The Ball Corp., now a diversified multinational, has moved its important operations elsewhere, and the Ball family itself is scattered, with diminished clout in Muncie. The local economy is now controlled from the out-of-town board rooms of large national and international corporations-and from Washington. Says Caplow: "The Federal Government has in effect taken over all the social welfare functions in Muncie. The care of the sick, the poor, the aged and the delinquent is all controlled by Washington...