Word: doubted
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There was widespread doubt in both the Administration and the Congress that Jordan was the right man for the job. One of his first acts was hardly encouraging. He distributed stacks of 30-question evaluation forms to Cabinet members, with instructions that they grade their high-ranking subordinates according to ability, performance and loyalty to the Administration. The forms were to be returned to him on Friday, so that he could begin deciding who at the sub-Cabinet level should be ousted...
...doubt. But during his bloody last stand against the Sandinistas' "final offensive," more than 15,000 people died. Another 600,000-roughly a fourth of the country's population-had been driven from their homes by Somoza's desperate, ultimately unsuccessful counteroffensive to save a regime that most Nicaraguans had learned to loathe...
...might like to retire, but then he insists that he is the only candidate who can protect Marion from an opponent whom he regards as irresponsible. So he is after a third term this year, as is Baker. And, those cantankerous voters willing, the others too will no doubt hang on to the pains and perks of office. After the Lexington meeting, at any rate, they will know more about mice and mayors, and perhaps remember the advice of a lecturer: "You politic, you massage, and you beg. Will is more important than data...
...returned grumbling that unionists might consider voting for a Republican in 1980. But the reaction of Connecticut Governor Grasso was more typical: she found Carter "upbeat and confident, just terribly impressive." At the minimum, most of the summit visitors were persuaded to give Carter the benefit of the doubt for a few days, as he struggled to devise a program and a way to sell...
Last week the Israelis were outraged when Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was received in Vienna by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky with a welcome almost befitting a head of state. Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna, and Begin left no doubt that he felt Kreisky was a Jewish traitor. The Austrian Chancellor said that he and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who also joined the talks, had "gained the impression" that the P.L.O. "no longer insisted on the destruction of Israel." Arafat, however, gave no sign that the P.L.O. was backing down on the Middle East peace...