Word: geralds
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Anne Meara manages to chew gum and act at the same time as a Gerald Ford figure; her role is amusing, but it fits poorly into the narrative. Playing Kissinger with a Greek accent, Melina Mercouri advises Jackson from abroad, using a portable phone to check on the abbess' progress. It is funny once or twice, but not as a running gag. Still, there are few problems with the acting save the occasional air of embarrassment from the nuns who deliver the poorest lines...
...press's portrayal of former president Gerald R. Ford and President Carter as candidates without convictions contributed to the voter apathy in the 1976 presidential election, Ronald H. Nessen, Ford's former press secretary, said yesterday...
Everybody from Gerald Ford to hard-lining Senator Henry Jackson agrees with this. (A corollary, held by several senior policy experts, is that Carter underestimated the extent to which paranoia is a factor in Soviet strategic thinking.) Ford told a student group at the University of Michigan: "I believe there was too much public rhetoric" be fore and during the Moscow meeting. Jackson told newsmen: "Everything is out in the sunshine, and that was something new for the Soviets. The style took them aback...
Carter did not consult anyone on the Hill or in the states before announcing that he was cutting $289 million-earmarked for 19 water-control projects-out of Gerald Ford's proposed budget for fiscal 1978. Convinced that many projects were unnecessary, he had vowed during the campaign "to get the Corps of Engineers out of the dam-building business." The President personally approved the 19 projects for the endangered species list on the grounds that they were uneconomical by today's standards, unsafe or unsound in terms of their effect on the environment. So far, $1 billion...
Vance's visit ended a long hiatus in top-level contacts between Moscow and Washington since the détente era began five years ago. Apart from an inconclusive meeting between former President Gerald Ford and Gromyko, the two sides had not sat down at a negotiating table since January 1976. U.S.Soviet relations, which progressively soured last year after pro-Moscow forces won the Angolan civil war, have not been helped by Carter's championship of human rights in general and Soviet dissidents in particular...