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...most dramatic findings of the survey came from a more indirect probing of voter sentiment-and it looks potentially helpful to Carter. In the survey's "state of the nation" indicator, which measures how people feel about the way things are going in the country in general and how much confidence they have in the future, voters are becoming increasingly optimistic. While only 11% took a positive view of the nation's well-being in May, 21% are upbeat now. As the incumbent, Carter would presumably benefit from any continued upsurge in optimism, which seems centered...
...people physically or psychologically abused. Despite the harassment, the progressive National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has become the most severe critic of the government. The church's task now, explains Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns of Sao Paulo, is to seek "a more just and participatory society." An indirect church-state clash occurred this spring when Brazil's auto metalworkers began a 41-day strike in Sao Paulo. The government, which is desperately trying to build up Brazil's industrial production, declared the strike illegal and took control of the unions. Bishop Claudio Hummes. Arns' head...
...military, of course, enjoys indirect financial benefits: free medical care (though it is not always readily available and not always first-class); cut-rate prices for food and other items at commissaries and a pension that provides half-pay after 20 years in uniform and three-fourths of base pay after 30 years. But with galloping inflation, these fringes no longer offset low wages. Then, too, most civilian jobs also have attractive fringe benefits...
...intense effort to free the hostages had taken place through what diplomats call "back channels," indirect and discreet means of communication between governments that appear barely on speaking terms. Since Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy, a number of back-channel messages have flowed between the Iranian and U.S. governments. Most often the messengers have been Swiss diplomats. But last week a flood of light on the back channels disclosed the activities of a collection of surprising messengers: an Argentine fixer, a leftist French lawyer, and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Disguised as a middle-aged man, with...
...direct benefits the Radcliffe Forum gives them and to convince President Horner that the Forum's services are necessary, representing the essence of the goal to provide women an excellent and equal education. I hope, too, that President Horner will reevaluate her decision in light of the myriad of indirect benefits the Forum gives to undergraduate women through its services for graduate women. Cynthia J. Dahlin Kennedy School of Government