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...four-day tour of the Midwest last week carrying a green knapsack decorated with a KEEP BETTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE button. People often confuse the Ford sons and push their way up to Jack to say, "Gee, Mike," or "Gee, Steve, can I have your autograph?" Rather than embarrass anybody, Jack signs the appropriate name. One of Jack's recurring problems is how to dodge the blind dates that his hosts eagerly set up with their daughters. While visiting St. Mary's College in Indiana last week, Jack was mobbed and soundly bussed by screaming coeds...
...would say we failed. And I'd quit. But that's not going to happen. You're going to see new faces, new ideas. The Government is going to be run by people you have never heard of." The statement suggests considerable political naivete: why embarrass such men as Vance and Brzezinski, advisers to Kennedy and Johnson and experts on whom Carter is leaning for advice...
White officials took the line that the disorders were primarily fomented by agitators seeking to embarrass Prime Minister John Vorster on the eve of his talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in West Germany. That the riots damaged Vorster's cultivated image as the statesman of segregation seemed clear enough. Nonetheless, Vorster remains the only key to solving the growing racial conflict in neighboring Rhodesia. Thus Kissinger went ahead with the meeting-as he put it earlier-"to see whether South Africa would be willing to contribute to a moderate and peaceful evolution of events in southern Africa...
...When leaks embarrass, the first official cry is that national security has been compromised. On the record of the past few years, this charge simply will not wash. Too much has been stamped confidential in order to conceal hanky-panky and ineptitude, not secrets. Even the celebrated 47 volumes of the Pentagon papers contained, as a Pentagon official admitted, "only 27 pages that gave us real trouble"-and these came to not much. In Daniel Schorr's case, Village Voice readers must have nodded over the congressional committee's tendentious maunderings and its few carefully bowdlerized CIA documents...
...public and embarrass them for a change?" demanded an irate former Moscow diplomat last week. He was referring to Washington's curious reticence about the great Moscow microwave furor. Last month the U.S. confirmed that for some 15 years the Soviet Union has been beaming microwaves at the hulking nine-story U.S. embassy on Moscow's Tchaikovsky Street (TIME, Feb. 23). The purpose: to jam the sophisticated electronic monitoring devices inside and on the roof of the building. (An earlier theory, now taken less seriously, was that the microwaves were designed to activate or charge up Soviet bugs...