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Caddell wrote a virtual blueprint for Carter's Camp David summit. In fact, Caddell had been trying to persuade Carter to refurbish his presidency since April, when he sent the President a now famous lengthy memo describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell...
...executive vice president of Amistad Dot Venture Capital Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based investment company, backed by black private capital, that helps set up small businesses run by members of minorities. Although former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton is chief executive officer of the fledgling company, founded in March, Ford is responsible for much of the daily operations. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School, Ford at 27 became the youngest president of the Harlem Lawyers' Association. Onetime speechwriter for Sutton, Congressman Charles Rangel and Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind., Ford commutes between Washington and New York City...
...proposal was acceptable to Egypt, but not to the Israeli Cabinet. It accused the U.S., in effect, of reneging on President Carter's written pledge last March to provide an "acceptable alternative multinational force" to replace the U.N. Emergency Force, if necessary. The Israeli opposition to the plan appeared to be inspired partly by pique and partly by legitimate reservations. Angered by a superpower deal arranged over their heads, the Israelis complained that unlike the large, combat-ready Emergency Force, which was created by the entire Security Council, the team of observers would be responsible solely to U.N. Secretary...
Carter's approval rating spurted eleven points in a New York Times-CBS poll, to 37%?the first upturn since a survey last March. Even critics who faulted his energy program as too timid regarded it as a much needed beginning (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Said Democratic National Chairman John White, who thought he saw the makings of a re-election winner in 1980: "I took down my 'for sale' sign this morning...
Ellen Porter, a senior adviser, said last March minimum wage is not an issue. "We could prove that proctors have more than adequate compensation--it's a fat job," she said...