Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fulfilling his worthy campaign pledge to conduct a "moral" foreign policy, Carter has strongly championed human rights, including those of Soviet dissidents. This has enhanced the nation's moral stature in many parts of the globe but has also enraged the Kremlin and contributed little toward easing the plight of those suffering from Soviet repression. Despite U.S. protests, the Kremlin ruthlessly tried and sentenced Dissidents Anatoli Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. To back up his rhetoric, Carter presumably felt that he had to retaliate, and last week he canceled the sale of a computer to the U.S.S.R. and threatened...
Social Reforms. Carter has been unsuccessful so far in his attempts at major change, even though some of his programs have been praiseworthy. His highly touted welfare reform, originally an ambitious $20 billion effort to revamp the nation's tangled and scandal-ridden welfare system, was trimmed back by the President because of the cost-cutting mood on Capitol Hill. But efforts to enact even the truncated $14 billion version collapsed last month. Parts of the urban program have not even been sent to Congress. The National Development Bank, intended to underwrite businesses in economically depressed areas, stands...
...much at fault is Carter for his uneven record on these issues? Certainly not completely. Congress has on many occasions proved balky and ineffectual. So has the vast bureaucracy. As the nation has grown more centralized and complex, the public has unrealistically begun to expect its President to solve an increasing number of intractable problems...
...White House, Mrs. Carter started out with some eclat, setting forth in June 1977 on a 13-day, seven-nation tour of Latin America. There was some criticism of a presidential wife's playing diplomat, but she demonstrated considerable knowledge of the area and concern for its problems. "My talks saved Jimmy a lot of time," she told Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary last week, "because he can pick up where I left off." There were other criticisms, though, of such foibles as her creation of a special seal for her trip. Says one longtime acquaintance: "Rosalynn revels...
...Bourne and White House aides agreed, the resignation was an attempt to calm a growing furor, but it came too late to prevent front-page newspaper investigation of a politically explosive topic: the illegal use of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, in the White House and elsewhere in the nation's capital...