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...filled either by Communist extremists or by the military. "If we do not solve this problem through the ballot," warns Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, "I'm just too afraid that we might solve it through violence." As the factions continue to bicker and dither, many potential supporters may fall away...
...Ronald Reagan enters his sixth month in power, the has-beens have helped put Washington in a mild dither. For one thing, there are more of them around than ever before: three vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what...
...million bbl. per day, or more than 22% of total consumption. On another front, the 13-nation OPEC cartel, which has raised petroleum prices by some 1,600% since 1970, is preparing to lift prices yet again when it meets next week in Caracas. Meanwhile Congress continues to dither and quibble over President Carter's five-month-old energy package...
...composing eulogies yet, this book just came out last week. And it's got some folks in a dither, like Ehrlichman, who blasted Haldeman in Time magazine for representing his tennis serve as a "lash," and describing his neck cords as "straining." No such luck, says Ehrlichman, and what really got to him was Haldeman's use of the Woodward/Bernstein method of reconstructing quotes from memory, lines I never quoth, says Ehrlichman...
...Neill went up to Springfield, Mass., last week to address a business group, and he was shaken by the visceral animosity he found toward Carter. "He's got them in a dither," said the Speaker. "He's got too many balls...