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...Latin classics, Cohen still carries that same image of youthfulness and intelligence. His style and elevation to the Senate make him one of the G.O.P.'s brightest new stars. Moreover, in the age of TV his stunning blond wife Diane and two handsome teen-age sons are also politi cal assets. A conservative on money matters, he appealed across party lines to knock Democratic Incumbent William Hathaway out of office. Cohen is expected to prove especially forceful in arguing for party positions in the Senate when he sides with them, but firmly independent when he does...
...implacable enemy; last month the Peking press denounced the Kremlin for "restoring capitalism and impoverishing the people." In Yugoslavia, President Josip Broz Tito has ordered mass arrests of people suspected of conspiring with Soviet agents to sub vert his government. The Kremlin has lately been embarrassed by the politi cal misjudgments of Portugal's aggressive Stalinist party. The huge 1,730,000member Italian party has now been joined by the 275,000-member French party in rejecting the Marxist model for Communism in their countries and in proclaiming (convincingly or not) their adherence to Western democratic principles. So troubled...
...them as the biggest political event on the main land since the death two years ago of Lin Piao, the Defense Minister who was killed trying to defect to the Soviet Union. All but one of the transferred commanders had held, in addition to their military positions, the top politi cal jobs in their areas. Significantly, the three commanders left in their posts wield no such political power...
...Republican Party affair [April 3]: what really amazes me is that this sort of situation has been allowed to continue for so many years. One would have to be terribly naive to believe that large politi cal contributions are made with no strings attached...
Labor is the largest organized politi cal pressure group in the U.S., but it is neither happy nor effective as it ap proaches 1967. The 90th Congress shows every sign of being the first Congress in many years from which labor has no hope of winning any prolabor legislation at all. Several major strikes in 1966 that greatly inconvenienced the public - including the airline and New York transit strikes - have given labor a tarnished image, and its fracturing of the economic guidelines has not exactly made it popular in Washington. Finally, the U.S. labor movement has fallen to quarreling within...