Word: calling
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Carter has prepared for the fight as thoroughly as he planned the campaign that took him from Plains, Ga., to the White House. His aggressive salesmanship was to begin with a televised speech Monday night that some aides call a "sky is falling" message. In it, Carter hoped to convince Americans that the energy crisis is worse than most of them think. He also planned to cite a still-classified Central Intelligence Agency report warning of worldwide oil shortages by 1985. Said Jordan: "The impression has to be made that this is a serious, permanent problem, and the changes...
...talent search for high-level appointees. Now he is moving forcefully into policy decisions. Other aides say that Jordan, sorry that he had not got himself more deeply involved in the decision making on Carter's minimum-wage proposal last month, eagerly responded to Carter's call to join the energy-program deliberations. When Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Economics Adviser Charles Schultze wanted to express doubts about part of the plan, they sent a tough memo to Carter. But it was Jordan, disturbed by the mounting dissension over the plan, who actually went to Carter...
What are Mobutu's chances for survival? A career soldier with a gigantic ego and a preposterous life-style (he has built palaces for himself in each of the country's nine regions), "le Guide," as Mobutu likes to call himself, has brought Zaire to the verge of economic collapse. Nonetheless, with so much Western aid on the way, there seems a fair chance that the "invasion" of Shaba may eventually be reduced to the kind of low-level guerrilla warfare that has smoldered on, in parts of southern and eastern Zaire, for much of the past...
...party's Central Committee meeting last week, Carrillo pledged that the Communists would "abide by the rules of the democratic game. Some reproach us for what they call a moderate policy line ... but the path is narrow and any thoughtless act, any attitude that does not take reality into account could provoke catastrophic reactions for Spain and for democracy." Wary of fueling rightist anger, the party, cautiously, canceled a mass rally scheduled for early this week. The party's legendary heroine, Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri, also was forced to delay her return to Spain from a long exile...
Dylan is almost indifferent to what his neighbors call his Taj Mahal. Says he: "One hundred years from now I won't be judged for the house." He is probably correct. One local geologist believes that the mansion is already slipping into the ocean...