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...Iran were "out of control." The report charged that the Nixon Administration, during Kissinger's days as the President's National Security Adviser, had entered into a secret commitment to sell Iran "virtually any conventional weapons it wanted." As a result, concluded the subcommittee, "the U.S. cannot abandon, substantially diminish or even redirect its arms programs without precipitating a major crisis in U.S.-Iranian relations." * Indeed, said the subcommittee, there were so many Americans -24,000 at last count-in Iran as a result of these sales that in a crisis, they could virtually be held hostage...
Every so often, Jimmy Carter sifts through his mail and finds a tactfully worded testament to his inadequacy. The content may vary from a suggestion that he abandon his call for "a national statute" limiting abortion, to a few examples of jokes he might tell, given his not-so-breezy speaking style. These missives are unfailingly polite-and Carter almost always obeys them. The author: Press Secretary Jody Powell, probably the only person on Carter's payroll who can regularly get away with pointing out the candidate's failings...
...twelve: "I just didn't talk to anybody about it." She admits to writing "seriously" for six years, has two failed novels still at home, plus a clutter of short stories. "The novels all grew out of stories," she explains, "because I can't seem to abandon the people...
...ranch provided him the chance to drain away tensions by digging postholes, building fences and riding horseback. "It kinda does something for us," he said. Then there were the small challenges. Two months ago, Reagan knocked off a rattlesnake with a well-aimed rock. This week he will abandon his hideaway for another intense hunt for a more benign species, the Republican delegate, before the climactic Republican National Convention in August...
...University should abandon its anti-union policies now. The workers, for their part, must press unceasingly for a change in University labor policy and practice, and must continue their drive to revise the internal grievance and investigatory processes. Student initiatives to support the workers should continue and intensify. Anti-unionism and policies which are inherently opposed to the workers' best interests should be doggedly opposed by a student-worker coalition, and should ultimately be discontinued...