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Some aspects of the Administration's deal with the Soviets remain secret, and others are still under negotiation. But in private, senior officials have begun to lobby hard for SALT II. Says one: "It's a damn good agreement." Adds another: "This gives us the basis to go after more stringent controls in SALT III." Nonetheless, even if the intensive bargaining with Moscow does yield a treaty in the next few weeks, Carter and his arms-control team are going to need all their patience and persuasive skills to assure its ratification by two-thirds of the Senate...
...criticism Smith has leveled at Carver's advocacy of majority rule. Said Carver: "If [Smith] doesn't understand that the whole exercise of the Anglo-American plan is to bring about majority rule on the basis of one-man one-vote at the earliest moment, the sooner he damn well understands it, the better." Carver is convinced that the current peace proposals are "the last chance for a just and peaceful settlement in Rhodesia...
Journalist Michael Herr, 37, writes about this war while admitting that "people don't even want to hear about it." Happily, he does not take the next step and insist that people damn well ought to hear about it for their own good. Nor does he justify his work by parading Santayana's maxim about the uses of history; instead, he deflates it: "Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too." He preaches no sermons, draws no morals, enters no ideological disputes. He simply suggests that some stories must be told-not because they will...
...course, but in the minds of many executives the risks now outweigh the potential rewards. Says Grant Simmons Jr., chairman of Simmons Co., the Georgia mattress maker: "Ten years ago, management would make investment decisions on the basis of intuitive, broad-stroke guesses. Now we want to be damn sure we see the fish in the barrel before we shoot...
...that businessmen are judging Carter too quickly. Says he: "It's almost as if he were being photographed every 15 minutes to see if he's aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter's preachy moralism, nonetheless gives the President high marks on one subject: "On international economic issues, Carter is dead right. There is no ambiguity about where Carter, [Chief Trade Negotiator Robert] Strauss and Blumenthal stand. They...