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Despite the strains of the long bargaining sessions over the past fortnight, Carter appeared jaunty, confident, partisan, pugnacious, smiling more than ever ?a revival of the man who had defied the odds and the experts to win the presidency. "Mr. President, it's wonderful how many friends you've discovered here in the last few days," remarked Republican Senator Clifford Case as he welcomed Carter to the federal aviation center in New Jersey. Replied Carter: "It is a good day for the world." Sounding much like a candidate once again, Carter was moved to make a grander claim...
...Carter, who had staked an inordinate amount of personal prestige on his ability to achieve a diplomatic coup that had seemed, in his own words before the Camp David talks began, a "remote" possibility. The extraordinary summit, confining two strong-willed opponents within a mountain retreat for a full fortnight, had been Carter's own idea. And by his mixture of idealism, tenacity and mastery of detail, he had won his gamble...
...fraud, theft and mismanagement in the General Services Administration would result in scores of indictments in about eight weeks. But eight weeks passed, and the score was still zero. At the end of August, GSA investigators said that a packet of indictments would be handed down within a fortnight. A fortnight passed, but there still were no indictments. Last week Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti indicated to a Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices that the GSA probe had been stalled, and indictments could be delayed for another eight weeks...
Just back home from a meeting with Pope Paul last fortnight, Romero ascended the pulpit of his still unfinished cathedral and unleashed one of his regular hour-long sermons about the tyranny and terror all around him. He is a small man and his voice is low-keyed, but it is strong and steady. Newspapers almost daily vilify him as corrupt, insane, as a Communist, as a man who "sells his soul to the Devil." They never print the news his sermons contain...
...been a critical fortnight in U.S. foreign policy, and one that U.S. officials figured had been highly successful. Carter had shown new vigor in handling challenges from overseas, and aides thought that he had gone far toward dispelling any notions, particularly in Moscow, that he was a pushover. They also argued that despite the fears of some NATO allies, the President had not gone too far. Noted a White House official: "We don't view all this as an inevitable escalation to another cold war. There is an ebb and flow in the competition and cooperation. That will continue...