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...wish to correct a misimpression created by an article about the Career Criminal Program [Jan. 30]. The article states "the program ... is now being phased out." The program is not, in fact, being phased out. The intent of the program is to provide an opportunity with limited funding to demonstrate to state and local officials innovative approaches and techniques for handling the serious, repeat offender. The hope is that following two years of discretionary funding (which was all that was ever assured) the projects' costs will be assumed by the jurisdictions. The program is not designed to provide ongoing...
...Iowa farm homes and the New Hampshire grange halls Carter had class as he talked about his hopes for America. He still is impressive in the small groups that gather around him in the Cabinet Room. But his presidency is becoming tarnished by the antics of others and the fact that Carter tolerates them, indeed sometimes covers for them...
Scammon and Wattenberg, who backed Henry M. Jackson for the 1976 Democratic nomination, base their argument on the fact that while several constituencies (notably blacks, Jews and labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal...
Handlin yesterday denied a conflict of interest in his editorial position. "I have no stake in the plant. The fact that I'm at Harvard doesn't mean I have a vested interest in the plant," he added
...must-win event for Harvard if it plans to hold onto the lead is the 800-yd. freestyle relay. The fearsome foursome of Coglin, Mack, Cooper and Hackett is heavily favored (and in fact could do quite well at the NCAAs later this month); a choke here could be very costly...