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Quite apart from the unusual step of a press secretary correcting his President, Powell's answer only further confused matters for anyone who has tried to decipher the White House's smoke signals on the economy. Last week Powell again tried. Powell said he had meant that the reaction by reporters to the President's statements about Burns was "overblown" and that it would be an "overreaction" to read into them any conclusion that the two have no differences. Moreover, declared Powell, when Carter said that he and Burns have "never had any disagreements" he meant only...
...Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...
...week, firemen were the ultimate sidewalk superintendents, watching flames engulf the buildings that they normally try to save. For the first time in its 59-year history, the British Fire Brigades Union had called a nationwide strike, ordering the country's 32,000 full-time firemen not to answer alarms. The government of Prime Minister James Callaghan rushed in 10,000 soldiers, most of whom had received only a few days training in rudimentary fire fighting. At week's end 33 Royal Air Force fire teams were dispatched to 13 cities to aid beleaguered soldiers. Thanks...
...politicians and economists continue to fret about the need to put more Americans to work. For Jimmy Carter, who campaigned on a platform dedicated to slashing unemployment, the persistently high rate of joblessness has become a critical challenge. Like his recent predecessors, Carter has yet to find the answer-if indeed one exists-for substantially reducing unemployment without setting off a new burst of devastating inflation...
Question: If you were forced to sit in a hotel ballroom for 41 hours listening to simultaneous lectures by Werner Erhard and Reverend Ike, how would you feel? Answer: Very much like a graduate of Prosperity Training, the hot new contender in the perennially fierce competition for the sappiest California therapy of the year...