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...diplomatic blitz reflected President Carter's determination to revamp the American posture in a region that has long been a backwater of U.S. foreign policy. The three main target areas...
...Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had said would be a "Jubilee bomb blitz to remember." Instead, a force of British soldiers, police regulars and reservists-beefed up to 32,000 for the occasion-managed to prevent any major bloodshed and allowed the Queen to turn her first visit in eleven years into at least a show of sovereignty over the most troubled province of her realm...
Promotional Blitz. Finally, the President also agreed to redeem a campaign pledge to the maritime unions, whose members provided generous financial support (an estimated $6 million) for his campaign. Carter agreed to back legislation that would require at least 9.5% of all U.S. oil imports to be shipped in American-flag vessels by 1982. Greater use of the more expensively operated U.S. ships would eventually create jobs for 2.500 additional U.S. seafarers and. at the very least, add $110 million in increased transport costs to the nation's oil import bill...
...gain popular acceptance for their bills, the unions are planning a lengthy. $800,000 promotional blitz featuring newspaper ads, talk-show appearances and a massive direct-mail campaign. White House aides even solicited views of business leaders to find ways to soften opposition to labor-law reform and an increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage...
...told TIME Correspondent Jean Vallely. And growing numbers of people these days are looking at him and for him. In tandem with the release of New York, New York, De Niro (disguised as Saxophonist Jimmy Doyle) appeared on the covers of a couple of national magazines. This blitz may not have blown De Niro's cover, but Doyle had better be careful when he goes out. De Niro receives ten scripts per week from agents and producers, who know a bankable commodity when they see one. He is booked up solid for the next two years and could...