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...hasten the IMF'S decision and to seek still more assistance from the U.S., Andreotti is due in Washington this week for meetings with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger. The Italian leader also hopes to talk to Jimmy Carter-or at least the President-elect's transition team-particularly since during the campaign Carter specifically viewed Communists in Western European governments as a concern but not a catastrophe and indicated interest in opening avenues of communication with them as President...
...Atlanta headquarters, will spew out a daily intelligence report on such matters as poll results, position papers, travel schedules and campaign spending. Carter is also keeping a cool eye on Ford's efforts. Says an aide: "We're getting really good intelligence on their scheduling?legitimately, I hasten...
Died. Juscelino Kubitschek, 73, imaginative', popular former President of Brazil (1956-61), who built Brasilia, a new concrete-and-glass capital in the desolate interior, in order to hasten Brazil's northern development; in an automobile accident; near Rio de Janeiro. A surgeon by training, Kubitschek relinquished a lucrative society practice to pursue his political career. He captured the presidency with a platform of "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Foreign investment and farsighted government programs helped build highways, power projects and a thriving automobile industry, but high inflation, deficits and charges of corruption marred his five-year...
Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind (Asylum). For a sweet country rocker, Linda sings a lot of sad songs. Now and then she tips her hat to mainstream rock 'n' roll- That'll Be the Day and a razzle-dazzle version of Heat Wave-but mostly Ronstadt has built her career singing about losers. Her new LP continues in the same vein. "Save me/ Free me/ From my heart this time," she implores in a voice edged with tears. The gentle reggae tune Rivers of Babylon blows a few of the clouds away, but nowhere does Ronstadt...
...practice. Any Christian Democrat who forms a post-election Italian government will have to gain the support of the Communists for an effective economic stabilization plan. The result might be unacceptable to Western financial experts, and their refusal could push Italy farther down the path toward financial ruin-and hasten the time when the Italian Communists do come to power...