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...Portugal has a new manager," exclaimed Walter Marques, a director of the Bank of Portugal, last week. So it had. President António Ramalho Eanes had ended a two-week-long government crisis by tapping his favorite industrial technocrat, Consulting Engineer Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 55, to follow Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares as Premier...
...supported by King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, who succeeded the slain Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud in 1975, and the older men, mostly royal princes, who run many of the ministries. But the men who breathe life into the policy are a lively, hard-driving group of young technocrats whose attitudes are shaping the country. They are known as the "American Mafia," because they were educated in the U.S. The best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than 3,000 princes), Yamani...
...between Carter and Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone, resisting contradiction and eschewing political maneuver, is not at odds with part of the image he has built up during his public life. Carter has always been more technocrat than pol, a man who stayed out of back rooms, who said no to special interests, who reached a point when he did not want to argue longer. During the campaign these traits were billed as desirable contrasts to the old-boy Washington clubhouse atmosphere. But back then he never...
Curious Fatalism. Wherever he turns these days, Giscard seems to encounter hostility. True, he can count on the loyalty of Barre, whose down-to-earth, schoolmaster image has won a surprising amount of popularity. But Barre is essentially a technocrat without any political base. Now Barre has been given an unenviable mission in attempting to win back the voters lost to the left, partly because of the government's economic policies. The pattern of the municipal elections showed that the leftist opposition gained most in those regions where unemployment was high. As inflation gains once more among France...
Christenson comes off as a woman with no scruples, someone who spends the whole film creating ridiculous yet effective shows hoping to produce a "50 share" (a sample of the technocratic lingo that she uses incessantly and incomprehensibly throughout the film). She goes on to team up with whore-number-three, senior vice president Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall), the technocrat who battles to the top, conducting a search and destroy mission against integrity...