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Maureen Reagan has been active in Republican affairs since 1964- before her father ever held public office. She has impressed women's groups-and alienated many G.O.P. regulars-with her staunch support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Says California Campaign Organizer Bill Roberts: "Her differences with her father could hurt her. But if she could get a bankroll, she could be devastating...
...continuing Israeli occupation of land Jordan administered from 1948 until 1967 galls, humiliates and weakens King Hussein, who has proved himself many times a staunch friend of the West. For all their own foot-dragging in the past, the Saudis have demonstrated true statesmanship-and implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist-in the way they helped mediate the current cease-fire in Lebanon. They are desperate for a U.S.-sponsored breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, largely to help them justify their own close ties with the U.S. Yet those ties are being strained anew by the determination...
...staunch Democrat who worked his way up through 19 years as a city councilman (he was council president for four years), Schaefer is a master at circumventing city hall bureaucracy. He has managed to push through major ventures like the Inner Harbor redevelopment and the subway now abuilding, by creating a series of quasi-public commissions. On every major civic commitment he has sought direct approval from the voters by referendum; he won all but one of them...
...vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points of the tax code, Mayor Daley's man characteristically acquiesced to the wishes of his party...
...much for L'Express Owner Jimmy Goldsmith, a dual French and British citizen, who is a devout conservative and staunch admirer of Giscard. The eventual election results did not help either. Last week Goldsmith sacked L'Express Managing Editor Olivier Todd, and, in turn, Editor in Chief Jean-François Revel resigned in protest...