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King proved an aggressive campaigner who excited his friends and infuriated his enemies. Promising to stop state funding of abortion, re-institute capital punishment, and wage an all-out war against crime (three issues about which the governor can actually do very little), King called for a return to the good old days...
Despite these plaudits, there were some serious objections. Most critics had three main complaints about Carter's program: 1) it does not include an all-out and specific attack by Carter on Government spending; 2) it does nothing to influence the supply of money, which usually grows along with federal spending and is thus a major cause of inflation; 3) it does not provide for any real enforcement of the wage-price guidelines...
...all-out Syrian effort to crush the Christians
...become another Stalin-grad." So said a weary Lebanese Christian, preparing to abandon his beloved city of Beirut-perhaps forever. Once again the sectarian violence that has savaged Lebanon for the past five years had erupted in a round of destruction and death. In an all-out effort to crush right-wing Christian militiamen with whom it has been fighting a months-long war, the 30,000-man Syrian peace-keeping force launched a devastating block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded...
...interview with TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood last week, Nyerere called on the U.S. and Britain to make an all-out effort to bring Smith to the bargaining table. Said Nyerere: "You Americans have power. Don't use it to support that regime. Put your weight behind liberation." Without such a peace initiative, Nyerere warned, Rhodesia could be headed for an Angola-style civil war between rival nationalists. The end result: a new Zimbabwe that might be far more repressive than present-day Rhodesia...