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...Carter Administration has appointed an interagency task force headed by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps to put together a package of export promotion measures that should be on the President's desk next week. It's about time. Last year the U.S. had a $27 billion trade deficit, swelled by a bill of almost $45 billion for oil imports. In this year's first four months the gap was $12.5 billion, vs. $7.6 billion for the same period last year. These imbalances have shrunk the value of the dollar overseas, fed inflation at home, cost jobs and raised...
TIME reported that "Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps blasted [President] Carter's handling of the Bert Lance affair" [May 15]. This statement is not true, and I would appreciate your setting the record straight...
...Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano Jr. let it be known that he did not like Carter's niggardly approach to spending for new social programs. Word leaked that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal thought the President was wrong to push for full-scale tax reform in 1978. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps blasted Carter's handling of the Bert Lance affair. Said one insider: "The Cabinet does what it wants because it's not afraid of this President. When the Cabinet members screw things up, nothing happens to them...
...most extreme of all breaks from tradition is that the service now has 23,356 women in uniform. Some 20 of them are pilots and fly attack planes as well as transport and passenger aircraft. Other Navy women skipper ships. Boatswain's Mate Juanita Heaster, for instance, is based in Naples, Italy, where she captains a small vessel that ferries supplies out to larger warships. She says she gets "a thrill out of taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work...
When the business leaders took seats in the State Dining Room, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps conceded that the Administration had been criticized for its inability to communicate with the business community, its lack of a program on which businessmen could base their plans, and its disregard for the private sector. But, she added, "we have made substantial progress in all three areas...