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LEADERSHIP. Even his harshest critics agree that he is as sharp as ever mentally, but George Meany has saddled the union movement with an unfortunate image. In what has to be the understatement of the year, Chaikin, an admirer of Meany, ruefully concedes that the AFL-CIO boss turns people off because, "he does not have the personality of an ever-smiling, ever-effusive, warm, merry-appearing man." One university expert on labor adds that Meany's performances on TV "must strike the 24-year-olds, a quarter of whom are college-educated, as something out of prehistoric ages...
Last week the President did so. Addressing a graduation class at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Carter talked straight to Moscow in some of the harshest words used by a U.S. President since John Kennedy in 1961 charged the Soviet character with being "stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest." At the same time, he offered the Russians an olive branch of potential good will from the U.S. side, if only they would make the right decision. "The Soviet Union can choose either confrontation or cooperation," said Carter at the climax...
...harshest assessments of Mclntyre come from conservatives who see the OMB'S inability to reduce the federal budget deficits as a root cause of inflation...
This argument clearly failed to convince the subcommittee's five senators in 1973 that the corporation behaved properly in Washington or in Santiago during the 1970 presidential elections in Chile. Yet because so little hard evidence turned up during those hearings, the subcommittee had to limit its harshest pronouncement, charging that "the highest officials of ITT sought to engage the CIA in a plan covertly to manipulate the outcome of the Chilean presidential election." Since the Senate subcommittee issued its report on ITT in June 1973, a steadily accumulating mass of evidence has reduced most of the ITT officials' testimony...
President Carter's handling of the present strike has been abominable. Sitting tight in the White House for three months, and making no obvious overture to the miners except threatening to cut off their food stamps--the only way many miners made it through one of the harshest winters the coalfields had ever known--Carter stumbled to action only ten days ago. His order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA...