Word: ga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House Correspondent Johanna McGeary had a less rewarding assignment as the storm grew and evasive tactics became more common: find Billy. In midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy...
...youth. We have serious doubts about the reasons for the actions of our leaders. And those doubts raise a more serious question: how long can a government remain trusted, beloved, when it relies on power, not reason, to enforce its dictates? In a way, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Jimmy Carter and the rest should be thanked--draft registration will wake up another generation, start them wondering about our world. And who's to blame if the answers they arrive at don't jibe with administration policy...
...next day, Carter flew to Alaska, where he rose at 4 a.m. Alaska time to don his waders and go by helicopter to a remote area north of Anchorage to fish for trout and grayling. The catch: 24 grayling. Then it was off to Sapelo Island, Ga., where he planned to watch the nomination of the man who hopes to move into the White House next January...
After nearly 3½ years of exercising immense power, Jimmy Carter remains resolutely rooted, in his cordovan wing tips, in Plains, Ga. But the rest of him is not so easy to figure out these days. He has left the U.S. weaker politically, more diminished in international respect, than any President in the 35 years since the end of World War II. Though the centerpiece of this mission is the summit in Venice, the real meaning is a search for some kind of cohesion in the frayed alliance. In personal terms it could be the final test of Carter...
Thomas P. Thompson Rome, Ga...