Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring there will be little movement to lead. The intensity of the antiwar protests or even of the ERA and abortion rallies, has not materialized. Students, the usual backbone of demonstrations, seem ambivalent. Many liberal and labor groups are dubious. Says James Wall, Carter's 1976 Illinois campaign manager...
Coming on the eve of the 1980 presidential election campaign, the treaty will be formally submitted to the Senate in early July. The SALT struggle will be a major test of Jimmy Carter's ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter...
...sooner was she installed at No. 10 Downing Street-after a couple of good nights' sleep to recover from the nonstop campaign and the tumult of the election -than Thatcher was on the move on several fronts at once. Before the week was out, she seemed to have gone far toward countering some of the misgivings about her inexperience, and allaying some of the fears about a national lurch to the right, at least too far to the right...
...huddled with her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and his Treasury team over the new budget that is expected in mid-June. That will not only chart the government's plans for concrete economic policy, but will test the worth of Thatcher's hardest-hitting campaign promise: tax cuts. At the same time, she also tackled a range of other problem areas...
...order received high priority with a government decree granting $100 million in pay raises to the police, as promised by the Tories during the campaign. Another pledge, to raise armed forces' salaries to civilian levels, was fulfilled the next...