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Geno Baroni, 43. "Unless you can understand the ethnic factor, you can't understand the cities," warns the director of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, which runs programs aimed at developing skills and leadership. Son of an immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program, and a decade of his community action programs culminated in the establishment of the Urban Ethnic Center in 1971.
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Robert L. Hartley, 36, may exert more influence on U.S. businessmen than any other journalist. He is editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, an operation regarded as being separate from the rest of the paper. Born in Marshall, Minn., and educated at Iowa State and Wisconsin, Bartley became a Journal staffer in 1962. After ten years of reporting, writing editorials and turning out think pieces for the editorial page, he was tapped for his present post. The Journal's editorials generally reflect Bartley's economic conservatism but are less predictable than in previous years. Lately the paper urged the House Judiciary Committee to seek support for its subpoenas in court and called for the impeachment inquiry to go forward.
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William J. Baxley, 33, is a flamboyant politician who was elected Alabama's youngest district attorney at 25 and the youngest attorney general in the state's history at 29. A bachelor given to loud clothes and fast cars, he is an energetic crusader who, in his self-styled role as "the people's attorney," has tilted with strip-miners, polluters, and, in an effort to lower prices, the Alabama dairy commission. The only thing between Baxley, a native of Dothan, and the governorship is George Wallace. That is quite an obstacle, but then Baxley figures to be around for a long time.
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Richard Ben-Veniste, 31. Known as a quick-thinking, aggressive prosecutor of corrupt officials, labor racketeers and organized crime figures while he was with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City, Ben-Veniste was recruited by Archibald Cox for the Watergate task force. He became head of it when Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor and, with the task force's six other lawyers, helped obtain subpoenaed tapes in a major victory over the White House legal staff. "He bores in on you like a God-damned termite," said one lawyer who has watched Ben-Veniste in action. A Columbia law graduate, Ben-Veniste will be a major Government prosecutor in the cover-up trials of the "Watergate Seven" scheduled to begin in September.
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C. Fred Bergsten, 33, earned a Ph.D. in international economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and spent four years in the State Department before joining the National Security