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...fundamental argument for increasing the powers of the assembly is that students could exert greater influence in University decisions through a single organization possessing the assembly's representative electoral structure. Student members of the Dowling Committee make this argument in private, but since they are aware that greater student activism may not sit well with administrators and Faculty, they have consistently argued in committee meetings that centralization would eliminate some of the duplication of work in the existing student-Faculty committees and would simplify the lines of communication and accountability between students and their representatives...
...turned to the F.D.P. out of fear of extremists in the other camps. Chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who is Schmidt's Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, said that his party would not ask for more than the four key ministries it already has. Instead, the F.D.P. planned to exert more influence in policymaking, and thus strengthen Schmidt's hand in resisting the demands of radicals in his own party for more socialist welfare programs and a more pliant stance toward Moscow...
...import sales can sometimes exert a marked influence on major labels. Warner Bros. was forced to rush-release Dire Straits' Communique, fearful that imports would cut heavily into domestic sales figures. Both Deep Purple's Live in Japan and Bob Marley & the Wailers Live earned domestic release as a result of their enormous import popularity. Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan was Jem's fastest-selling import earlier this year. Epic took heed, rushing a domestic release that finally established the band's long-predicted stardom...
...United States missed several opportunities to prevent the establishment of South Korea's current military regime and has failed to exert its influence to try and curb the regime's repressive policies, an expert on Korean affairs told an audience of 150 last night...
Graduates include droves of key church leaders who exert considerable influence within the growing Evangelical movement. The most famous, the Rev. Billy Graham (who earned an A.B. in anhropology in 1943), was back on campus last week to dedicate the $13.5 million Billy Graham Center. The center includes an auditorium as well as a museum, classrooms and a research library. Wheaton also numbers more than a dozen college presidents among its alumni, and people in every other line of work-even David Young, '61, one of the White House plumbers along with Egil Krogh, and a bit player...