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...startled President laughed heartily, but the burlesque was not entirely a joke. What confronted Jimmy Carter last week as he returned to Washington from the glittering pomp of his talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the economic summit in Bonn was the harsh fact that his presidency is in deep trouble. His Oval Office In box was overflowing with problems: mounting inflation, the energy deadlock, the failure of tax reform, the Turkish arms embargo, the chill in relations with the Soviet Union. There was even an embarrassing furor over the discovery that White House Health Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne...
...criticism now assailing Carter exceeds such predictable norms, and it comes from all quarters. While Republicans hungry for gains in this November's elections are understandably harsh, so are many members of the President's own party. Complains one prominent Democrat: "Things continue to fall apart. A year ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Six months ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Now we are saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter had damn well better take hold of things." Some Democratic congressional...
...biting comment may well have been aimed at U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who at one point dismissed the Cuban presence in Africa as "a stabilizing influence." Yet by implication, Brzezinski's harsh words could also have been aimed indirectly at Vance, whose expressions of Administration concern over Soviet and Cuban activity in Africa had been phrased with an almost Victorian gentility...
...Secretary ranged over U.S.-Soviet relations, NATO, détente, and Cuban troops in Africa, at no point backtracking on the harsh Moscow-aimed comments of Carter at Annapolis, but sometimes rephrasing them. For example, where Carter had bluntly offered the Soviets a choice of "confrontation or cooperation." Vance smoothly asserted that both sides would be "making choices between an emphasis on the divergent elements of our relationship and an emphasis on the cooperative ones." He referred to the tough Soviet reply in Pravda to Carter's Annapolis speech. Growled Pravda: "There is no end to attempts at interfering...
...also hard to hear anything but a joke when he sings, "French girls they want Cartier, Italian girls want cars, American girls want everything in the world you can possibly imagine!" Jagger has never said his stance was clear, though, and in the end he seems to recant his harsh irony when he sings, "Let's go back to Zuma Beach, I'll give you half of everything...