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Deciding on what he called "major surgery" in his 29-member Cabinet to help solve his problems, Trudeau bumped out two party veterans and added seven new faces, including two women. External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen, a skillful party tactician, was transferred back to lead the currently disorganized Liberals in Parliament. In MacEachen's place, Trudeau appointed a rotund, voluble Newfoundlander named Donald Jamieson. His diplomatic experience is scant (his last post was Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce), but Jamieson's known affection for the U.S. promises an improvement in the tone, at least, of U.S.-Canadian...
This year's Derby may have the smallest field in 28 years (seven or eight) and probably will be a virtual match race between Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes. It will surely be a track tactician's delight since neither animal, by breeding or instinct, is willing to be "rated." In rough translation, the term means that if you have to run a long way, you had better run some of it slowly, or you might never get there...
...will force Preus to set up new district offices loyal to church headquarters. At that point, some sort of new moderate church will begin to emerge. One synod spokesman estimates that fewer than 200 of the church's 5,846 congregations would join the exiles. But a moderate tactician claims that if Preus does not relent, 600 to 800 congregations will be in rebellion by the end of the summer, with more likely to leave later on. If this happens, it will be one of the biggest U.S. church schisms in decades...
Programming, which owes more to water divining than logical analysis, is a team game. Last spring Pierce hired away from CBS its programming chief, Fred Silverman, the most experienced and successful tactician in the business. Ironically, it was Silverman who set up the CBS schedule against which ABC has done so well. It is too early to judge Silverman's real influence on programming. It was he who spotted the series potential of Laverne and Shirley, the two brewery workers on Happy Days, and suggested The Bionic Woman spinoff. Silverman's impact on ABC itself is obvious. Already...
Brilliant Tactician. Though he is respected and often feared, Marcos does not arouse Kennedy-like adulation among Filipinos. "He is the most brilliant political tactician the Philippines has ever had," grudgingly admitted one businessman who thoroughly dislikes Marcos' "constitutional authoritarianism." But the businessman added: "He and the top officials can do anything and nobody can stop them...