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...first foray into presidential politics in 1964, Wallace proved extraordinarily popular not only in the South but among disaffected whites in the North too. He asked them to "send a message to Washington." He promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...
Carter's latest foray-to Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria and Liberia-is a kind of footnote to the grueling nine-day, 18,500-mile global marathon he embarked upon in December. Planned by Brzezinski, that mammoth jaunt was supposed to include three of the four countries Carter will now visit. They were lopped off the itinerary when someone realized that the President-or any other mortal-would have trouble keeping up the pace of such a tour. Having promised a visit to Venezuela, Brazil and Nigeria, however, Carter was obviously obliged to follow up. Liberia was added more or less...
...might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation. While 34 Israelis died in the terrorist raid, many more would surely be killed during the Israeli foray into Lebanon. Indeed, by any accounting of their 30 years of eye-for-an-eye retaliation, the Israelis are far ahead of the Palestinians. Though terrorists have taken 143 Israeli lives since the 1973 war, Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed some 2,000 Arabs...
There is also a touristy foray to America, in which the windswept Bergen gets to ride a San Francisco cable car. The scene looks like a Rice-A-Roni com mercial. As Antonioni abundantly dem onstrated in Zabriskie Point, Italian di rectors should keep their distance from the U.S. The California air makes them go haywire...
Kohl said yesterday he expects further support from NASA after the first foray in November for additional launches and to upgrade the instrumentation...