Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondent Strobe Talbott's analysis that "the basic trouble seems to be that Jimmy Carter ... is still unable to project a sense that he is in control of events" indicates that Mr. Talbott has accepted the essential error of the present Administration: image rather than reality is all important. The truth is that Mr. Carter is not in control of events...
...need of some kind of victory. On the eve of his departure, he had sunk to his lowest point in the public-opinion polls since July 1978 (63% negative in the Harris survey), partly because voters generally believe that he is floundering in his foreign policy and has lost control of events. Said Joel Fleishman, director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs: "Carter needs a success. The ripest possibility is the Mideast, so why not go after...
...Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities like the Kurds, the abolition of censorship and worker control of factories. Says he: "In front of us is nothing but light. If a nation can express its thoughts freely, then we shall progress...
...prices grocery shops can charge. Kani, who operates out of a makeshift office in Tehran's parliament building, says that the authority of this parallel administration will now be consolidated by "drastically cutting" the number of local groups and by bringing the rest under the direct control of the central Komiteh in Tehran. The Komiteh will also foster "understanding of the Islamic revolutionary objectives" by propagandizing through television and radio programs, recorded cassettes and a newspaper...
...water mark against which to measure Radcliffe's 100-year drive toward equality with Harvard. "The intriguing thing," says Horner, "is that we have been working out at the institutional level the very things that men and women are facing today in their relationships, such as power and control, autonomy and commitment, the clashing of priorities, and self-esteem...