Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is reducing them further and returning the trimmed versions this week. Then the various agencies will start making their appeals to restore funds that have been lopped off. Carter insists he will back up his budget cutters. At a mid-November meeting of subcabinet officers and other top civil servants, he emphasized that his anti-inflation campaign would require sacrifices "from everyone." Noting that all sorts of interest groups "will make their voices heard," he warned: "You will be tempted to be a spokesman for those you serve. I would like you to avoid that as much as possible...
...Jordan's self-deprecation, however, the traffic in and out of his office in the White House's West Wing testifies to the growing range of his involvements. When Alfred Kahn is being coaxed away from the Civil Aeronautics Board to head the Administration's anti-inflation effort, that office is Kahn's last stop before visiting Carter. Another day, a visitor finds Jordan closeted with Charles Kirbo, the President's Atlanta-based confidant and troubleshooter, and Jay Solomon, head of the troubled General Services Administration. Yet another day, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski shows...
Among the most common complaints are lack of political freedom, food shortages, and the extreme hardships in the "new economic zones," patches of jungle where city dwellers have been forcibly resettled. "Practically everybody talks about escape," says a former Saigon civil servant now in Thailand. "It's just a matter of being willing to take the chance...
...shouting Spaniards flooded Madrid's Plaza de Oriente to pay tribute to the late dictator Franco on the third anniversary of his death. Blue-shirted members of the Fuerza Nueva (New Force), an extreme right-wing group, marched to the site in military formation and mingled with grizzled Civil War veterans and youths with Nazi swastika armbands. Others who crowded into the square were simply ordinary conservatives, nostalgic for days long gone when life seemed more disciplined and predictable...
Nixon told the audience of 800 that while in office he authorized wire taps and break-ins to break up a group of Palestinian terrorists operating in the United States. He said that while civil libertarians might object to the means used to break up the terrorists, he thought it was necessary in order to "save innocent people...