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...traveling and thus was represented at last week's talks by a colleague, Elliot Gabella) does not enjoy Muzorewa's popularity, but he is considered to be a skillful political tactician. He also commands considerable financial resources from big London-based donors. Senator Chirau has the firmest political base among the conservative tribal chiefs, who still influence millions of the country's blacks...
...court's majority was perhaps on firmest ground in contending that the whole question of public funding of abortion ought to be resolved by legislators rather than by judges. Wrote Powell: "We leave entirely free both the Federal Government and the states, through the normal process of democracy, to provide the desired funding. The issues present policy decisions of the widest concern. They should be resolved by the representatives of the people, not by this court...
There was chin wagging, eyebrow lifting and nay-saying when the announcement came that Georgia Congressman Andrew Jackson Young Jr. had been nominated as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Indeed, for a while the firmest nay had been that of Young himself. But last week, under what one source described as "imploring by Carter to reconsider," personable Andy Young accepted what he conceded to be, only half facetiously, a suicide post, or so it has proved for many a famed political figure...
William F. Wilson, a third-year architecture student and member of the search committee that chose McCue, offers one of the firmest statements of this McCue-as-appointed-successor scenario: "You don't ask if McCue will be dean, but how long before he is dean." Harris sees Kilbridge gracefully stepping down when the school returns to a quiet equilibrium...
...speech after another, Henry Kissinger has been swinging harder and harder at an old troublemaker for Washington, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Last week during an appearance in Dallas, the Secretary used his firmest language yet, warning that the U.S. "will not accept further Cuban military intervention" in Africa and hinting darkly of "decisive action" if Havana refused to pay heed...