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...candidates also have a similar dislike for commotion around them, hate to discipline errant aides or, in fact, to deal with touchy personnel problems. Yet the White House is no place in which to seek serenity or avoid the inevitable friction of strong personalities grasping for power. Carter has depended too heavily on his Georgia cronies, failing to cut some of his ties with, say, Bert Lance or Andrew Young as early as he should have. He pledged, as all new Presidents do, to reach out for strong men to direct Cabinet departments ? and then, in effect, fired several...
...Khomeini in Iran. Either or both leaders could still be swept away by the war they are now waging. Saddam Hussein has gradually distanced himself from the Soviet Union, even though Iraq has a friendship treaty with Moscow very similar to the one Syria just signed. Another cause of friction: Saddam Hussein has also been cracking down on pro-Moscow Communists inside Iraq. "To say that an Iraqi victory would be a Soviet victory is nonsense," says Arabist James Akins, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "Saddam Hussein is No. 1 on the Soviet hit list...
...come to a temporary accommodation in 1975 when Saddam, then Vice President, and the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi announced a frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border was moved from the Iranian side of the disputed waterway to the middle of the estuary; in return, the Shah agreed to stop his support for Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq who had been battling the Baghdad government with increasing...
Nancy J. Hoffmeier '82, membership director of the club, said yesterday she will resign from the executive board because of other "time commitments" and because her support for the presidential campaign of Rep. John B. Anderson (R.-Ill.) "could cause friction and problems" within the board...
...University of Texas, made a close clinical study of relations between children and divorced parents in 60 families. Their conclusion, reported in an article in the Journal of Social Issues, was that children reared by same-sex parents exhibit greater maturity and independence. There is also less child-parent friction and a closer interrelationship. Mothers, after all, are less likely to teach boys to fish or hit a ball, and fathers are less experienced at dressing dolls or little girls. But try to tell that to the judge...