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...Carter managers were determined not to align the President with a platform that called for big spending programs. They gathered their forces together in a small open area amid the five Carter trailers, which were circled like frontier wagons. Jordan called about 50 of the floor whips, wearing bright green vests, to collect around him. Standing on a wooden box, he exhorted the group. "The worst thing in the world for President Carter is to be just sitting here while this platform is rewritten," he said. "We've got to fight every one of these economic reports." Then Strauss...
...TIME-commissioned Yankelovich poll provided him with the raw data for charts that were to accompany a Nation story on U.S. foreign policy and the presidential race. Reporter-Researchers Noel McCoy and Deborah Wells compiled figures for charts illustrating this week's World assessment of how various nations align with the Soviet Union, and two Business stories...
...also took an aggressive stance in support of Israel when he appeared at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York City last week. "We must never barter the freedom and future of Israel for a barrel of oil," said Kennedy, "or foolishly try to align the Arab world with us, no matter what cost." Declared a satisfied participant: "He said everything they wanted to hear...
...Afghanistan gives the West a golden opportunity to turn the Third World against the Soviets, but that this chance will be lost if Soviet-Western relations deteriorate into a new cold war. Says one Italian diplomat: "If there is a confrontation, the Third World would not be able to align itself with the West because this would cause internal problems with its population. But if the West avoided a confrontation, it could rally Third World countries and the Soviet Union would be isolated...
...Five nations have nuclear arsenals, a couple more have the bomb but no way to use it, and a dozen others might get in it a few years. The maintenance of international peace and stability is essential for global survival. We no longer perceive an international Communist conspiracy (we align with the Chinese and are not yet conducting domestic witchhunts) but Sovietophobia is giving domestic reactionaries and demagogues a field day. We can no longer manipulate the Third World as we once did, and so we have to consider their viewpoint, their interests, in our calculations. Perhaps Marxism offers...