Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize and condone the Soviets' overtaking the United States in strategic arms between now and 1985." Onetime CIA Director George Bush complained that even the Chinese Communists are concerned about "the lack of U.S. resolution on Iran." Asserted Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker: "There is a growing view that America is a patsy and we never retaliate. We do more with someone who shoots a cop than someone who assassinates an ambassador." None of these challengers, of course, bears any responsibility for the commitment of American lives to distant causes...
...President himself feels unfairly besieged by the rash of criticism of his foreign policy. He thinks that his show of restraint should be seen not as weakness but rather as the patient forbearance of a powerful nation and its leader. Indeed, in all his public speeches, even as a candidate, Carter usually lowered his voice to make his main points, apparently expecting that he would thus gain more respect than if he indulged himself in stridency...
...Carter pondered the barbs from Mexico's President José López Portillo a few days ago, and momentarily wondered if he should respond. Then in a fraction of a second he decided that the better part of wisdom and the greater part of courage for the leader of a superpower was to sit calmly and quietly. In Mexico there was some grudging appreciation. In America, beset by too many inner doubts, there was plenty of criticism...
Silencing the Senate. In 1977, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd struggled valiantly against a prolonged filibuster by opponents of the Administration's natural gas bill. He finally mustered more than the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, which should have ended the debate. But opponents craftily offered countless amendments and delaying motions, requiring 116 time-consuming roll calls before the bill finally was put to a vote. The tactic, found permissible under the rules, has been used by both liberals and conservatives to frustrate efforts to end a filibuster...
Public sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police conduct. Last week the police reduced their demands, but the strike went...