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...interpreted at the Pentagon as a reward for the relative combat readiness of the Air Force, as well as for Jones' own willingness to go along with White House-approved defense policies. Jones, as Air Force Chief of Staff, fought hard for production of the B-l bomber but refused to wage any further fight to save it once the President had made his decision against the aircraft. Similarly, Jones argued both publicly and privately in behalf of the Panama Canal treaties negotiated by the Administration. Former Navyman Carter was known to be unhappy with the Navy, which...
...will Southerners view Carter in 1980? The authors note that his stands on the Panama Canal, the B-l bomber and SALT certainly dismay conservatives. If his image is perceived as liberal in 1980, they contend, he will be in trouble. Of course, they add, Carter's vulnerability down home raises a related question: "Is the G.O.P. wise enough, and unified enough, to capitalize...
...highly cyclical U.S. aerospace industry, stability had been as elusive as a wispy contrail against a clear blue sky. Just when things were going well, something would go wrong. Recession, the climax of the Apollo moon-landing program, President Carter's scrapping of the B-l bomber project: all these riddled industry profits and caused huge layoffs in Southern California, Seattle and other aerospace centers. Currently, the industry is making an upward thrust, fueled by fat military and commercial order backlogs. But the present climb is expected to level off at a comfortable plateau, and the old boom...
World affairs took up more of Jimmy Carter's press conference last week than even his dramatic B-l decision. No wonder. His foreign policy is in some trouble at home and abroad. Such troubles are easily exaggerated by Washington (including the capital press corps), a community that pays compulsive, excessive attention to every blip of seeming success or failure. But in the past few weeks the President has been handed setbacks by a Congress reluctant to endorse his planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and authorize U.S. participation in loans to Cuba, Indochina and several African nations...
Winpisinger also would take a softer line on defense. Though the matter is somewhat academic after President Carter's decision last week, Winpisinger's own union is on record as favoring the B-l bomber. But, he says, "personally and morally I'm absolutely opposed to the B-l." In almost any other country, Winpisinger's agenda would scarcely seem all that far left. That it seems radical in the U.S. is a true measure of the labor conservatism that Wimpy intends to change...