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Editorially, few U.S. newspapers defended the President's West German itinerary. "The victims and the butchers of Nazism are not equatable," observed the New York Times. Suggested the Boston Globe: "If Jimmy Carter or Walter Mon-dale had so ... befouled the dignity of the presidency . . . ridicule and sarcasm from right-wing sermonizers would still be echoing." But the press assault on the trip was not unanimous. "That some of the men buried at Bitburg were members of the SS . . . does not make the visit less proper," argued the Houston Post. "Those men are dead, killed fighting as regular troops . . . Death...
Nonetheless, neither Government nor private economists foresee a new recession this year. Said Heller: "We should not overemphasize just one quarter. This economy is not on the skids. There is enough steam in the boiler to keep things going." Predicted Charles Schultze, who was Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser: "For the rest of this year and into next year you still ought to see a moderate but erratic expansion...
...defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table and proceeded to watch a Braves game...
...murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed the Carter conviction in 1976, it stated that it was not considering the recantation. (At the retrial, the witness changed his story back again, and Carter was reconvicted...
...Carter said he plans to maintain both of his positions at Harvard during his tenure as chairman...