Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter has not yet produced that special sense of authority. He came to office convinced that solutions to many problems were far easier than others had thought. One of Carter's counselors affirms his intelligence but observes: "The greatest problem facing the nation today is Carter's lack of experience." Neither Carter nor his aides, declares this fellow, had the vaguest idea what the Lance case was costing them, or how to resolve it, until in desperation Lance reached out and called in Lawyer Clark Clifford...
Says a former member of Ford's Cabinet: "Carter has not made that transition from running for office to the job of leading the nation. All Presidents sooner or later must get rid of people who put them into office in favor of those who know what to do. Carter has refused to do that...
...Bert and LaBelle to come and see him. They did so at 1:15 p.m., staying for 45 minutes. The President told LaBelle that however reluctantly, he had to conclude that Bert's decision to resign was the best course for the welfare of the Lances and the nation. She did not seem convinced...
Authorities say that smuggling in the New England region has been increasing in recent years as drug-runners started moving north to avoid the heat generated by U.S. agents along the nation's southern border. New England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast...
...Farouk Kaddoumi, told TIME's Robert Kroon: "We will not object to going to Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation, provided we get separate invitations from the U.S. and Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist. The P.L.O. has refused to accept the resolution, since it refers to the Palestinians as refugees rather than as a nation with rights...