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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only 27% ranked him as very strong, and 24% said he was weak. President Carter ended up at the bottom of the leadership list, below even Republicans Robert Dole, Philip Crane and George Bush. More than half of those polled said Carter was not a strong leader; only 12% thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Still Looking for a Leader | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

"It doesn't make a damn bit of difference where the President is, the White House or the banks of the Mississippi," Press Secretary Jody Powell snapped last week. But there was no way of avoiding the contrasting images. On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Mideast Muddle | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

ENGAGED. Janet Auchincloss, seventyish, socialite mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and Bingham W. Morris, 93, retired investment banker described by Auchincloss as "a very close childhood friend." Auchincloss's first marriage, to John Bouvier III, the dashing stockbroker father of Jackie and Lee Radziwill, ended in divorce. Her second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1979 | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Last September Obasanjo ended the nation's twelve-year-old ban on political activity, and more than 55 parties exploded into noisy life. But only five, among them Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (N.P.N.), could generate a following wide enough to qualify their presidential candidates. The freewheeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Black African Vote for Democracy | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

War, as Jonathan Swift put it, is that "mad game the world so loves to play." If the game is even madder these days because of the threat of nuclear annihilation, the world has learned to keep alive humanity's fascination with it by doing what both Homer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: W.W. II: Present and Much Accounted For | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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