Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riddle of leadership. Jimmy Carter's 17 months of training have taught him to appreciate the unnerving complexities of managing power. But his lack of experience still seriously fetters him. Participants in his rising attack on the Soviet and Cuban adventurism in Africa describe a man in a delicate state of doubt, where both courage and hesitation (with a bow for the line to old Political Novelist Allen Drury) show themselves...
...they watched Carter last week trying to find his way through the thicket, optimists saw the beginnings of a subtler, more effective Carter leadership, a comforting reliance on some skilled Government veterans. Pessimists worried that Carter was in danger of losing control of both men and events...
...State Department, which blessedly goes on from President to President, crisis to crisis, they reached back for some wisdom attributed to Henry Clay, a Secretary of State himself, and a man who knew something about leadership: "I cannot at this juncture clearly foretell the outcome, but I counsel you to cultivate calmness of mind and prepare for the worst...
Within the M.P.L.A. leadership there appears to be a split along racial lines. Neto is an assimilado, meaning a Portuguese-speaking Angolan who in colonial times had the same privileges as a European. His wife Maria Eugenia da Silva is white?a fact that prompted the appearance of mysterious posters in Luanda demanding "Morte a rainha branca " (Death to the white queen). An unsuccessful coup last year led by former Interior Minister Nito Alves, an Angolan black, may have been triggered by the ethnic split...
...economic revitalization for American cities, as a means of increasing the economic opportunities of blacks across the country. A native of Atlanta, Ga., Jordan worked as an attorney for the Atlanta Office of Economic Opportunity before taking on duties with the United Negro College Fund, and later the leadership of the National Urban League. As one of the leading spokesmen for urban blacks, he has been active in policy advising in Washington--to the point of a well-publicized rift with President Carter over the allocation of federal funds for the nation's cities...