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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's frantic exertions since then have represented, among other things, an implicit confession of his own failures as a leader. He seems to have grasped the shortcomings of the Carter Administration as clearly as anyone, although the methods he has used to correct them have seemed at times peculiar and erratic...
...admirers are right when they detect in Carter an honest, decent, compassionate man, his critics may also be correct in thinking him somehow fatally limited. Even a sympathetic observer like Massachusetts Congressman Robert Drinan remarks: "There is something missing in Carter, something intangible." Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "I like Mr. Carter. I respect...
...country. The real question is whether he has the ability to mediate successfully between radical and conservative views in an untested coalition government whose main bond of unity is opposition to Somoza. "Sergio has all the qualities necessary to be very strong," says an associate. If that judgment is correct, Nicaragua may still be able to avoid the factionalism and violence that have marred so many revolutions...
...President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970, whose administration was marred by the bloody suppression of student protesters in the capital's Tlatelolco Square in 1968; of cancer; in Mexico City. Though a diehard antiCommunist, Díaz Ordaz considered himself a moderate: "I know my course is correct when, like a submarine on sonar, I pick up noise from both the left and the right." Noise from the left grew deafening in protest to the Tlatelolco massacre, in which some say hundreds of students were slain (official death toll...
McKibben describes only the rally on Saturday saying how it seemed small-scale. He is correct. Still, that is the way it was intended to be. When I called the Boston Clamshell office the Wednesday before the rally, a member told me that Saturday's rally was not planned to be large and that Sunday's rally was going to be the Hollywood production. I feel Sunday's event lived up to this billing. The field was crowded with enthusiastic people when I left. Jonathan D. Rabinovitz...