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...expecting to be swept out of power no matter what the outcome. Even Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss jokes (sort of) that come Nov. 4, his influence will be nil with or without victory. What also is quietly acknowledged is that Carter's Government is in terrible disarray in important areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Consoling Promise of Change | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...sponsoring the wave of urban terrorism which has stricken the country and threatens to topple the dictatorship. The next day, however, Marcos made a public offer asking Aquino to return home and accept a "high government post," in the hope of restoring order to a nation in disarray...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Man in the Middle | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...exacerbating institutional tensions within the Government, needlessly agitating foreign leaders with his penchant for braggadocio, and sowing confusion with pronouncements that too often sound like geostrategic gobbledygook. Thus he has contributed to the impression so widespread at home and abroad of an Administration that is impetuous and in disarray. In that sense, Brzezinski is unquestionably part of Carter's overall political problem, now as the President faces the election and later if he gets a second term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Almost Everyone vs. Zbig | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...their current disarray, the liberal wing of the party, most notably minority and urban Democrats, face an election that could shred whatever solidarity remains. There are three possibilities for the left--it can go for John B. Anderson (R-Ill.), it can split into innumerable blocs, backing the hopeless candidacies of Barry Commoner or socialist David McReynolds or communist veteran Gus Hall, or it can somehow manage to fall in line behind Carter...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Waiting for Lefty | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...vanished empire but to confer with the leaders of six allies in an effort to repair their sadly weakened ties. It was the sixth such summit in as many years, and it promised to be the most rancorous. Not in years has the West seemed in such disarray, with a newly self-confident Europe going its own way on issues ranging from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to the deadlocked Middle East peace talks. Predicted a senior West German Foreign Ministry official in a gentle tone: "It will not be an easy meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At the Bridge of Sighs | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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