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...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...
...Dobrynin, approached New York City's Kennedy Airport on the afternoon of Jan. 18, something went dangerously awry in the control tower. The letters and numbers identifying a blip on the radar screen as the Soviet plane suddenly disappeared. An unidentified voice then ordered the Soviet pilot to descend from 8,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., into airspace that is normally reserved for small planes. For three minutes-and six miles-the jetliner flew at low altitude over heavily populated Long Island, until a tower supervisor discovered what had happened. He quickly radioed the pilot and patiently guided...
...highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming that the gypsies would pester vacationers by peddling their wares, have tacked up signs reading GYPSIES FORBIDDEN. Police periodically descend on camping gypsies with guard dogs and submachine guns and force them to move on. "We are the original campers," Rose complains. "Yet now everyone can live like a gypsy in West Germany except gypsies...
Pretoria recently hinted that it would intervene militarily should the forces of "chaos and confusion" descend upon Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Last week South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha flew unexpectedly to London to express his government's concerns to Carrington and Thatcher...
...week from tomorrow, more than 6000 invited guests and hordes of journalists will descend on the University of Massachusetts campus at Columbia Point in Dorchester. People will come from all over the country for the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, an event which some feel has been too long in coming. President Carter will be there, Sen Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will be there and the Secret Service will be there...