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Within the Administration, Simon's hard-driving ways and disregard of bureaucratic protocol have always made him more enemies than friends. In recent policy debates he has pushed his views too stridently, and his clout is visibly diminishing...
...Jews-in exchange for U.S. trade concessions. The Administration and many others regarded the amendment as a perilous and unwarranted intrusion into Russian internal affairs. But Jackson looked upon it as "one small step along the road to an international community based on law." Such was Jackson's clout in the Senate that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for a time seemed to be negotiating with two sovereign powers-the Kremlin and Jackson. When the Russians appeared to give in to the demand, he boasted that he had demonstrated "what tough bargaining can accomplish...
...totally proper that we employ our economic clout rather than the lives of our young men for humanitarian purposes and the freedom of others whenever and wherever we can. To acquiesce in the Soviets' position that this is unjustified as an unwarranted interference in their domestic affairs would be like justifying the continuance of business with Hitler while being aware of his murder camps for fear of being criticized for interfering with Germany's domestic affairs. This is plain baloney...
...Kraut with clout," joked Henry Schoellkopf Reuss last week after House Democrats voted him chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee. For 20 years as Representative from his Milwaukee district, Reuss had suffered Congress's archaic seniority system, waiting impatiently in the wings for his turn...
Although the sect's Utopian approach to global problems often sounds like an Oriental echo of Moral Re-Armament, Ikeda carries more political clout than most religious leaders. His organization is the founder of Japan's Komeito (Clean Government) party, which emerged second only to the combined forces of the Socialists and Communists as an opposition party in the last election. Moreover, on his global mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address...