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Carter Country (premiere: Sept. 15, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T. on ABC). In this ridiculous sitcom, TV does its cynical best to cash in on the popularity of Jimmy Carter. The action takes place around the police station of a small Georgia town, where the cracker sheriff (Victor French) must cope with a New York-trained black sergeant (Kene Holliday), a dumb racist deputy (Harvey Vernon) and a sex-crazed policewoman (Barbara Cason). There's also a politically ambitious mayor (Richard Paul) who looks like Bert Lance and, in the opening episode, an off-screen visit by the President himself...
...specifically informed until 1974 about the false-identity aspects of the scheme and thus never got to ask any questions about its legal or moral ramifications. One question suggested by Graham: "Should the Government officially adopt a program dedicated to telling lies?" Another, clearly, is how the courts should cope with the problem of $1,000 monthly payments and occasional $35,000 relocation bills for witnesses who are forbidden to accept "improper inducements" for their testimony...
...rebuilt the sport. The N.A.S.L. now consists of 18 teams in cities from Vancouver to Tampa, and Woosnam expects to expand to 24 by next season. Says he: "It's the best investment in sports. Right now, all you need is $250,000 cash and the ability to cope with some initial losses." He seems to be right; half a dozen owners may have turned a profit for the first time this past season, pushed into the black by the sport's growing audience. No longer confined solely to ethnic groups nostalgic for the old country, U.S. soccer...
...team had to cope with allies as well as adversaries. At certain critical points, President Carter disrupted negotiations by sounding off in public. In a speech last month, for example, he casually remarked that the U.S. might retain "partial sovereignty" over the canal even after 2000. Panamanians, who thought that issue had been settled, exploded in outrage until they were reassured by Bunker and Linowitz. "Well," noted a participant, "there isn't much we can do about loose language...
...Substantial segments of the European left began to praise the gang's actions as justified retaliations against the excesses of capitalism. The praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory in a flashy purple Porsche (the gang had a capitalist weakness for luxurious cars). Meinhof naively fell into a police trap in a village near Hannover...