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...along, Carter's critics charged that his refusal to campaign was merely a political tactic, not a necessity of national security. This week, the president gave credence to their harshest complaints. In deciding to give up the protection of the Rose Garden for the glaring publicity of the last few primaries, Carter claims, curiously, that after the fiasco of his failed rescue attempt this week, the crisis is "more manageable...
...last possibility has a disturbing ring. During the harshest years of Brazil's military dictatorship, between 1968 and 1976, lawless police "death squads" administered justice with violent and often arbitrary force. Some of the latest executions do point to police participation. Numerous corpses have been found clad only in shorts, similar to those worn by prisoners in Brazilian jails. Gunshot wounds have obviously been inflicted by heavy-gauge shotguns and other weapons used by the military police. There have also been reports of victims being dragged from their homes by men wearing police uniforms. Most witnesses, including relatives...
...leave the country and announced that they would not appoint a new Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. British officials pointed out that the Saudi reprisals could have been worse, but they were clearly dismayed by the fact that Britain had been singled out for the harshest retribution...
...Great Depression beginning in 1929 was capitalism's harshest test. One-fourth of the U.S. labor force was unemployed, national output fell by half, and some 11,000 banks closed their doors. Capitalism was in large part saved by the innovative theories of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, who advocated temporary enormous government spending to get national economies growing again. Vast wartime expenditures in the early 1940s finally accomplished that...
...decision, Ford addressed a Washington fund-raising dinner for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committees, and laced into Carter. Said he: "Why have we pulled our punches on Jimmy Carter? Why do we let him make himself the hero of disasters he alone created? Why, oh why, has the harshest criticism of Mr. Carter's abysmal performance come from Democrats even less equipped and more unsuited for the presidency than...