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Lodge also called for tax credits for employers who maintain a high level of employment, reform of the Presidential election system and ratification of the proposed Panama Canal treaty...
...hopes for engineering a peace in the Middle East have been further frustrated by the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians in Lebanon; his attempts to forge a new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviets appear stalled (see THE WORLD). His one breakthrough has been the Panama Canal treaty, but conservative opposition to it has been building. Hoping to counter some of the setbacks, the White House announced last week that Carter will leave in late November for an eleven-day whirlwind tour of Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium. Overseas trips are a familiar respite...
...undertake special missions for the President like him. Clark Clifford, adviser to Presidents since Truman's day, says unequivocally, "Jimmy Carter has the best mind of any President I have known." Yet those like Clifford, and Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, who negotiated the Panama Canal treaty, have come from the Oval Office sometimes not quite sure they know Carter...
...dawning. All surveys show that a growing majority of the American people consider themselves to be conservative. There clearly is continuing discontent with Big Government and big spending. Beyond these basic concerns, a burst of new emotional issues are swelling conservative ranks and stirring their rhetoric. The Panama Canal treaty may be the most prominent concern of the moment, but the movement is thriving on such life-style issues as abortion, pornography and gay rights. In general, the resurgent right inveighs against a slackness of standards and urges a return to a sterner morality-a personal message that seems...
...perjure himself before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during its February, 1973 confirmation hearings on Helms's appointment as ambassador to Iran. Kissinger just happened to be paying a visit to the White House--ostensibly to advise Carter on the upcoming battle on Capitol Hill over the Panama Canal treaty--when Bell met with Carter earlier this month...