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...extremists in the other camps. Chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who is Schmidt's Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, said that his party would not ask for more than the four key ministries it already has. Instead, the F.D.P. planned to exert more influence in policymaking, and thus strengthen Schmidt's hand in resisting the demands of radicals in his own party for more socialist welfare programs and a more pliant stance toward Moscow...
Logue's strategy to strengthen the Concourse focuses on a building-by-building commitment of federal funds. Last week, he received a special allotment of $320 million in government subsidies to rehabilitate 1,000 housing units along the Concourse. This sum, combined with New York City's normal allottment of housing funds, may be the stimulus needed to bring the South Bronx back to its former grandeur...
...Arab leaders, that of ambitious President Saddam Hussein, 43, who wants to make his country the dominant power in the gulf; defeat could bring him down. For Iran, the stakes were equally high. Khomeini was able to mobilize the nation at short notice. Repelling the Iraqis would probably strengthen his hold on the country for a while. Buckling under Iraqi pressure could invite fragmentation, perhaps even the dismemberment of Iran...
...funds should flow into fields where the U.S. has a competitive advantage over such countries as Japan and West Germany. Examples: computer chips and agriculture. At the same time, Congress should give generous assistance in retraining and relocating displaced workers in older industries like steel. Says he: "We must strengthen the economic safety net for individuals, but pull it out from under companies...
...Carter advisers are counting on Vice President Walter Mondale to shepherd unhappy Kennedy supporters back into the Democratic fold. One recruit about to sign up: Robert Kennedy Jr., now a law student at the University of Virginia Law School. Mondale is also busily holding "unity meetings" to strengthen the old Democratic coalition that many experts feel will grudgingly regroup as Nov. 4 and the prospect of a Ronald Reagan presidency loom ever closer...