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...denies that Daly makes frequent trips to Washington. Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for Government and Community Affairs estimates that he and Daly averaged roughly ten days a month in Washington last year when Congress was in session. Daly, uncharacteristically modest, states that he has been to Washington "as many as two times" a month...
Whatever the frequency of visits or opinions of Mooney. Thompson and Donsanto, both Daly and Schmidt have some arguments against the lobbyist label. Among them is what they claim to be primarily a listening role at the nation's capital...
...might stay on federal bills, and let legislators know where we stand," Schmidt says. "We might write letters or see people involved in the activities... We try to maintain fairly close contact with committees involved in education, the staffs and parts of HEW." But Schmidt stressed that the large bulk of such contact consisted of "information gathering." and that when Harvard's views were presented to officials, it almost always came in response to queries. "'Lobbyist' has bad connotations--cigars, broads, booze," Schmidt said. "In that sense, we're not lobbyists...
...weeks ago West German Economics and Finance Minister Karl Schiller resigned over the controls issue. His departure took away one of the last influential voices calling for unhampered capital flows. Schiller's successor, former Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, apparently believes that without some controls West Germany will be forced to revalue the mark upward for the second time in less than a year, thereby making its products more expensive and harder to sell abroad. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, too, favors currency regulations as opposed to floating rates...
...fill the two vacancies left by Schiller's departure, Brandt switched Helmut Schmidt from the Defense Ministry to take over the Economics and Finance portfolios. Schmidt, whose youthful good looks help him to outdraw even Brandt in voter-preference polls, is a leading member of the party's right wing. With elections ahead, Brandt wanted to be certain that West German voters realized that Schiller's abrupt exodus did not mean a leftward swing by the Social Democrats away from the recent middle-of-the-road policies that helped bring them to power...