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...York's Governor Hugh Carey was put to a stern test?and he passed with generally high marks. With New York City on the brink and unable to govern itself, he reluctantly took charge and assembled a group of businessmen, financiers and public officials to overhaul the city's spending practices and devise a rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor...
...been "a profound, even alarming disappointment," and that it had been "the scene of acts which we regard as abominations." Moynihan argued that the Assembly "has been trying to pretend that it is a Parliament, which it is not," and acidly (but accurately) observed that "most of the governments represented do not themselves govern by consent of their citizens." He then quoted a plea by dissident Russian Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. At this, the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik strode out in protest...
...television, Halberstam contends, is a reluctant adversary of Presidents. He has studied CBS, which he considers "the best"-and concludes that profits, more than public interest, govern programming decisions. When CBS pre-empted its regular shows to televise the 1966 Senate hearings on the Viet Nam War, the loss to the network, says Halberstam, ran to $175,000 in advertising revenue for the first day. Then CBS News Chief Fred Friendly was told by a superior that housewives had no interest in the hearings; the coverage was abruptly curtailed, and Friendly quit...
...Stevenson had lost a little of their luster. Since then, more and more Americans have voted with deep misgivings. They have been worried that their own candidate was flawed, or that his opponent would be a disaster-or both. Nixon-Kennedy, Goldwater-Johnson, Nixon-Humphrey, Nixon-Mc-Govern. Increasingly the voters ask: "Are these really the best candidates we can find?" Between now and next November it is certain that the question will be asked again, often in anger: Out of our large (214 million) and highly educated population, is this the best choice the American system can offer...
...What do you think of our strike?" quipped Socialist Leader Mário Scares last week. He was referring to one of the most bizarre events in Portugal since the 1974 revolution: the government itself was staging a walkout. Its strike was to protest the massive rallies that have stymied its every move and the military's inability to guarantee its security to govern. The action meant that the 15-member Cabinet would no longer show up for work until President Francisco da Costa Gomes managed to restore discipline to the armed forces...