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...John Vorster is shrewd as well as stubborn. Having placated Afrikaners with a show of strength, he might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
...Cardinal Pignedoli, 67, who leads the office on relations with non-Christian religions and is the most widely traveled member of the college. If the next Pope is chosen from outside Italy, at least a possibility now that 27 of 117 voting cardinals are non-Italian, Holland's shrewd primate, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, appears to have a clear edge. With two decades of experience in the Vatican Curia, he knows the Italians well...
...quit. By letting the crisis drag on, Carter raised troubling questions about his instincts as a President and politician. Before making a decision, he hears out advocates with a variety of often conflicting viewpoints. But six of the seven aides closest to him are fellow Georgians. They are hardworking, shrewd and bright, but new to Washington. Notably, the one non-Georgian in the inner circle, Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, the former vice mayor of Rochester, was also the only one to come out publicly against Lance...
...Office, and prayed. All the while, the Budget Director's proud wife LaBelle insisted that her husband had brilliantly cleared himself of wrongdoing, and appealed directly to the President that her husband stay in office. But the close-knit Georgians turned in the end to the advice of shrewd Washington veterans and wisely ended Lance's eight-month career as Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
...Rams Owner Carroll Rosenbloom and his shrewd general manager, Don Klosterman, felt Namath was worth a gamble. After all, the Los Angeles team had won the Western Division title for four straight years-with four different quarterbacks-only to get knocked off each time in the playoffs. Pat Haden, the baby-faced Rhodes scholar, performed inconsistently as last year's starter. So Namath, who was available for $150,000 a year-a pittance compared with the $450,000 he got at the Jets-seemed well worth a try. Joked Rosenbloom: "If we don't get to the Super...