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Carter also rated a 72% for "providing moral leadership," an improvement from the 66% of last June but still down a lot from the glowing 91% that he scored near the beginning of his Administration, in March 1977. Carter's report card dropped somewhat in the general area of domestic social policy. Only 54% rated him favorably on aid to cities, 53% on coming to grips with the energy problem, and 52% on "keeping our defenses strong." Unquestionably, he fared worst on all economic issues - 49% on providing jobs, 47% on cutting back government bureaucracy and 24% on curbing...
Primarily on the basis of his gains in the field of foreign policy, and the general sense of moral leadership that came from his summit triumph, Carter has been able to turn around the results of hypothetical contests between himself and Gerald Ford. In trial heats polled in June and August, Ford came out ahead by eight percentage points. Today Carter would win 46% to 35% over his former opponent and carry all sections of the country. Carter would likewise beat Reagan, as he would have earlier this year; but perhaps because of his whirlwind tour on behalf of Republicans...
...Patricia Lynch, a producer for NBC, filmed a report on Synanon activities that was aired last June. Later, she says, two men with close-cropped hair and carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...
...demands on the Palestinians. Chamoun and Gemayel began laying the groundwork for partitioning Lebanon and creating a pro-Israeli Maronite state along Syria's border. When Gemayel's Phalangists murdered the son of Assad's friend Franjieh and more than 35 other pro-Syrian Christians in June, Syria became convinced that the plot was already in motion. Assad was further alarmed when the Camp David talks foreshadowed a separate Israeli-Egyptian peace, thereby tipping the military balance between Israel and "rejectionist" Arab states even further in Israel's favor...
Conrail's president, Richard D. Spence, quit last June. So far, Chairman Edward G. Jordan, who is chief executive officer, has failed to find a replacement. Jordan, 48, concedes that few railroad pros would want the job because "it's a high-risk situation...