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...Smith plan will work and, more important, whether it will lead to a genuine transfer to black rule. The Rhodesian whites have won several minority safeguards, including enough seats in the new Parliament to give them veto power over constitutional changes for ten years. If they also retain control over the armed forces, they could wind up as the real power in the new regime...
...measure, Raymond Barre, 53, is an unlikely man to be leading the center-right coalition's battle to retain power in France. Author of the standard economics textbook used in French schools and a former vice president of the Common Market, Barre was virtually unknown in his own country until President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing named him Premier in August 1976. The roly-poly professor, who describes himself as a "square man in a round body," enjoys the fact that he is not a professional politician. His blunt, straight-talking manner has won him the respect...
There is a personality clash between the liberal, Humphrey-style Democrat Pat Harris and Oakley Hunter, a former Republican Congressman from Southern California. Their deeper problems center on policy: Should Fannie Mae retain its semi-independence, as Hunter wants, or should it bow to HUD directives, as Harris insists? Specifically, Harris feels that Fannie Mae is far too concerned about making money-last year its profits rose from $127 million to $165 million-and too unconcerned with stimulating mortgage lending for low-income housing in the cities...
...found therein speak largely in some strange tongue found only in that mysterious land that produces moronic commercials for Irish Spring deodorant soap. And granted, the reader sometimes finds it difficult to believe that Reid's characters can daily consume enough Irish whiskey to stagger a water buffalo, yet retain enough brain cells to run around breaking each other's kneecaps with undiminished fervor. But trivialities and stereotypes aside, Reid still manages to entertain: his federal agents and seductresses, while quite familiar, are still endearing. And his friendly collection of priests--even though they don't act like any priests...
...with 1:18 remaining when he sunk a pair from the line. Hooft and Banks both picked up one-and-ones in the final minute and both missed the first free throw only to have Booker haul down the rebound (he had ten on the night) and retain control for the Crimson...