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...great extent, American Jewish criticisms of Begin have been blunted by dismay over the Carter Administration's fumbling Middle East policies, especially the controversial snafu over the United Nations vote. "Carter reacted outrageously," charges Mann. "He practically gave the West Bank to the Palestinians." Explains U.C.L.A. Political Scientist Steven Spiegel: "Carter has deflected some of the criticism from Begin. The Administration has been particularly adept at taking actions that directly challenge Israel." As Carter's hasty retreat on the U.N. vote shows, Washington policymakers are acutely sensitive to such discontent in this election year, when Jewish votes...
...Howard Baker would have had some chance to emerge as the nominee in a backstage contest dominated by party brokers-but when Ford did temporarily offer himself, hardly any of those very leaders were willing at that late date to enlist publicly in his cause. Baker discovered to his dismay that the respect he has earned among his Republican colleagues in the Senate as their minority leader did not translate into wider support among Republican primary voters...
...powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from large estates, many held by absentee landowners; the confiscated properties would be turned into state-run rural cooperatives. At the same time, a series...
Across the nation, the worsening inflation and the Administration's inability to deal with it have caused widespread dismay. "It has been six or eight months since I've taken my wife to a restaurant," grumbles John Conroy, an accountant in Canton, Mass. David Traver, a student and part-time department-store clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used...
...Undershaft (Philip Bosco) is a munitions magnate. Having renounced his family some 20 years before, he suddenly descends upon them. His wife Lady Britomart (Rachel Gurney) is the same socially ingratiating charmer she always was. Undershaft finds his son Stephen (Nicholas Walker) a simp of propriety, and to his dismay learns that his mettlesome daughter Barbara (Laurie Kennedy) has become a devoted minion of the Salvation Army. Her adoring shadow is Adolphus Cusins (Nicolas Surovy), an elitist teacher of Greek. When Undershaft taunts him as "Euripides" and Cusins flings back "Machiavelli," the tycoon is rather taken with the scholar...