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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...
Even within the lameduck Ford Administration, some officials are beginning to believe the economy needs some temporary stimulation. Says one Ford economist: "If the numbers don't move in the next couple of months, no one will stand in the way of a tax cut." In fact, Ford in his final budget will propose a tax cut of $10 billion and tie the cut to reductions of $15 billion or perhaps $20 billion, to begin about a year from now, in federal spending programs...
...final meeting on December 29, the lameduck City Council voted to end rent control in Cambridge. Liberal members of the new Council obtained a court order that prevented City officials from closing the rent control administration and questioned the legality of the order to abolish it. On January 10, the new City Council restored rent control by a 6-2 margin and created a five-member Rent Control Board in place of an Administrator...
Last spring, when Maurine, now 55, confided to close friends that she did not want to run for re-election in 1966, they dissuaded her from announcing the decision, on the grounds that it would make her a lameduck Senator too soon. Last week, after months of rumor, the word in Washington was that Senator Neuberger still intends to become plain Mrs. Solomon next year...
...succeed himself, was in a fighting mood. Said he: "The history of our state, as we all know, is replete with instances in which the second half of an administration becomes a poaching ground for unscrupulous politicians.This is not going to happen this time. This administration will become a lameduck administration at high noon Jan. 17, 1967, and not ten seconds earlier...