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...events at home and abroad. In recent speeches he has expressed his pride in America's past and, despite present problems, his optimism about the future. "One secret of America's strength is that two strains-rebelliousness and willingness to accept orders-run strongly through our national life," he says. "From the tension between these tendencies I think part of the American dynamism is created." He has contended that "our failure to achieve civilized race relations is America's most serious social weakness"; he has described the "decline of American productivity" as one of the most debilitating...
...faces life-or death...
...prosecution from using its most incriminating evidence. But he left the closing argument to Defense Attorney Margaret Good. She attacked the case against him as "flimsy and unscientific." Said she of the bite marks: "It is a sad day for our system of justice if a man's life can be put on the line because they say he has crooked teeth...
...task of the nation's leaders in the '80s will be to rediscover new themes of purpose in American life. History, of course, may help by assailing the serene with some of its blunt instruments. As U.A.W. President Doug Eraser says, "It is almost impossible to get movement in our society unless there is absolute crisis ? it is a crisis leadership and a crisis government...
TIME asked a variety of historians, writers, businessmen and others in public life, "What living American leaders have been most effective in changing things for the better?" Reflecting the continuing problem of leadership in the White House, no one named Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter. The great diversity of the people chosen mirrors the fragmentation of American society, one of the problems for leaders. The nominees ranged from relatively predictable to almost shocking...