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...second main challenge: making the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil. A rise in oil prices would probably cut consumption, but also would certainly increase inflation. "Good energy policy is not good economic policy," summed up White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Added another adviser: "We've got to do what is in the best interests of the country-but it's damn hard to see how anything we do will be in the best interests of Jimmy Carter...
...those early months of his Administration, his appreciation of the difference between the importance of such acts in the White House and the tolerant Southern view of human frailty afforded family and longtime friends was not fully developed. When his confidant Bert Lance got into trouble, Carter could not divorce himself from one he knew so well. Yet these lapses have been minor. Carter's basic integrity has remained intact...
...former Texas Governor has got off to such a fast start that he has become Reagan's principal rival for the nomination in a race that most political experts predict will be settled in the early state primaries. The first is in New Hampshire, eleven months from now. Last week Connally, accompanied by Wife Nellie and a van of political reporters, made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar...
...fortnight ago, Government lawyers got a ten-day restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from...
...much protection in a rocket attack. But reporters in Rhodesia counter that their war is different: there are no battle lines, no secure areas∕and every white man is a guerrilla target. "There is no such thing as a neutral here," says one freelancer. "If you've got a white face, you are the enemy. This is a race...