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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls on any national issue since General Omar Torrijos seized power in 1968 and outlawed political parties four months later. Torrijos had encouraged political debate on the treaties in order to counter suspicions in the U.S. that the plebiscite was rigged, and he got a bit more than he bargained for. Political dissidents took advantage of the relaxation in the atmosphere to mount criticisms of the regime that could have landed them in jail or in exile only a few months earlier. Nonetheless, what Panamanians had dubbed "the little summer of free expression" produced a clear-cut victory for Torrijos...
Lately that chamber has echoed with predictions that Jimmy Carter will be a one-term President. Since the thesis cannot be tested for three years, this bit of prophetic journalism deserves a closer look. For months the capital press corps had been reporting Carter's growing problems but seemed unable to get through to a public that regarded Carter as a nice guy who was trying hard. So commentators began raising their voices. The trouble is that to those who dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes...
...past few weeks have been holding their breath. Their $6 billion investment in retooling for new models that have been sharply reduced in size and weight (TIME, Aug. 1) represented a gamble: Would the public like the smaller "big" cars? Last week the carmakers could relax a bit and repeat previous predictions of near record sales during the 1978 model-year with more conviction. New-car sales for the first 20 days of October?during which time most of the new models were in the showrooms?jumped 16% above a year earlier. That figure does not give a definitive reading...
...that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success and started chasing something else. We're not going to make that mistake with Concord...
...many Americans still maintain an implicit faith in Yankee ingenuity; they continually hope for the development that will put the Russians in their place and give the U.S. a safe and lasting strategic superiority. The MX missile is one more such hope that will surely prove to be every bit as futile and destabilizing as past systems have been...