Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves the "family." Now the government must see to it that the rising inflation, unemployment, food shortages and the incipient bankruptcy of 250 businesses do not lead to the sorts of civil disorders and revolution that are plaguing the country's neighbors. Luckily for Carazo, he is a lameduck President whose term will expire in May 1982. With elections set for next February, the likely winner is Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 55, a portly politician known as a team player rather than a charismatic leader...
Back in Washington that evening. Carter again tackled the issues that are his responsibility until Reagan is inaugurated. The President has nearly finished signing or vetoing the bills sent to him by the lameduck session of Congress, with decisions left only on how much protection to extend to the U.S. steel industry and whether to allow banks to open branches in other states. The President also was, as always, preoccupied with the hostage crisis in Iran, giving final approval to a State Department message that was dispatched to Tehran through Algerian intermediaries (see WORLD...
Washington's ability to influence the Salvadorans has been hampered by the Carter Administration's lameduck status. Rightists throughout Latin America apparently expect the incoming Reagan government to reverse Carter's human rights policy and aid their fight against leftist rebels. Signals from the Reagan camp have done little to discourage such hopes. A Reagan transition team report, leaked to the press two weeks ago, named White as one of several U.S. envoys who would be replaced because they had acted improperly as "social reformers...
...Carter's most pressing problems, ones that could not wait for the change in Administrations, were matters of foreign policy. Both Carter and Reagan are deeply concerned about the hazards of "lameduck diplomacy"-that nations abroad might try to exploit the long transition between Administrations on the assumption that Washington would be too distracted and irresolute to respond...
...that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, was a significant action by the lameduck Congress. Supported by such conservative Republicans as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will become Judiciary Committee chairman in January, and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the bill passed by a vote of 51 to 35. Says Helms: "The vast majority of people of all races are sick...