Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House correspondent, Barrett naturally spends a certain amount of time trying to fill in his blank "dance card" with high-level sources in the Carter camp. But the broad terms of the job are as familiar to him as the keys on a typewriter. For 20 years, Barrett has made U.S. politics his beat. A graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then...
Until last week, no one had been certain that Strongman Balaguer and his loyal generals would actually leave. In May, when it became clear that Balaguer's right-wing Reformist Party was losing the election badly, the generals had ordered a halt to the vote counting. Immediately there was heavy pressure, both from within the country and from Washington. Jimmy Carter sent word that if Balaguer attempted a coup d'état, the U.S. would order sanctions against the illegal regime. Balaguer's supporters resented the interference, but they got the message...
...should become the next Pope. The ultraconservative religious movement Civilta Cristiana plastered Rome with posters demanding "a preacher of crystal-clear doctrine and a custodian of truth against the current heresy." Other right-wingers who follow France's semischismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome a list of necessary papal traits, among them happiness, holiness and willingness to "trust others...
...Pope would have to be capable of dealing with a situation unlike that faced by any of his predecessors in recent centuries. Said Washington's William Baum: "In the past, in much of Europe, for example, people have grown up in religious families and in societies with certain traditions. Now much of that is breaking down. The church will have to emphasize personal conversion." Baum is looking for a spiritual Pope first, not a politician. Catholicism, added Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, must recognize that "it has no political support in many places" and must depend on persuasion rather...
Increasingly, however, the justification for plea bargaining as a necessary evil is being questioned. Most observers agree that certain overburdened urban jurisdictions would grind to a halt without it. But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining. According to New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, when he limited plea bargaining, the city's criminal court judges complained that "they would have to spend a lot of time on the bench trying cases...