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Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat spearheaded the Arab peace initiative. Convinced that only the U.S. can work out a Middle East settlement, he hopes to win the same kind of support from President-Elect Jimmy Carter that he had from Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Sadat also intends to make the prospect of ending the state of war so attractive to the West that the Israelis will have to accept. As one Egyptian official put it last week, "If the Israelis appear to be refusing to end the war, I wonder if they can again get $5 billion from the American...
...investment by edgy businessmen and forging a working relationship with Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board, which controls the nation's credit. Last week Carter's prospects for doing both brightened measurably. After an hour-long meeting in Washington with Burns, the President-elect reported that the chairman found his economic goals for 1977 "reasonable." Those goals are a 6% rise in real output, v. 3.8% in this year's third quarter, and a reduction of 1½ points in the unemployment rate, currently 7.9%. More important, Burns helped to engineer a further...
...Wage and Price Stability. Acting Director William Lilley III asked National for production, cost and profit-and-sales data and said the market appears to be no stronger than last summer. COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain-and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines...
Saul Bellow loves the game. Elvis Presley has his own court. The football teams at Notre Dame and Michigan State practice it as part of their training programs. Illinois Governor-elect James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously...