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When he was nominated Mondale announced that he wanted "a very broad range of dutes and responsibilities in both domestic and foreign policy," and most Washington observers agree that he has achieved this objective. During his tenure as vice president, Mondale has won from the Administration strong stands on affirmative action and increased funding for a variety of educational and urban programs. Mondale played an important role in gaining the cooperation of organized labor in endorsing anti-inflationary policies. And in a symbolic flourish, he is the first vice president with an office in the West Wing of the White...
...people out of work." In a Friday night TV speech, Rea gan pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel in Amer ican history...
...broad outlines, Reagan's plan is almost identical to Carter's at the beginning of his presidency in 1977. Carter had inherited from Gerald Ford a SALT II agreement that was nearly complete, but Carter wanted something better, a "real arms control" treaty of his own that would roll back, rather than merely slow down, the Soviet weapons program...
Early one morning in March 1978, residents of Saigon were jolted awake by something eerily reminiscent of the city's "liberation" three years before: the growl of tanks on the broad boulevards. This time, the goal of Hanoi's forces was to stamp out capitalist trade in the Cholon business district. Squads of Communist Youth League zealots searched every shop and warehouse. Merchandise was seized; stores were padlocked. Employers of more than five people were denounced as exploiters of the working class. Family-run produce markets were allowed to stay in business-but only if they held their...
...housewife pauses while vacuuming the rug. Her drawl is as broad as her smile, as she declares herself "proud" to be from the "Bible Belt." But she is a mite disturbed about all those ministers meddling in politics. "Jesus didn't tell us there was only one Christian way to think politically,"she says. ";If my preacher and I don't tell anybody how to vote, then nobody's going to tell us how to worship. That's the American way, isn't it?" View ers who agree are invited to phone or write...