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Certainly, Lance must be given every chance to knock down all charges that are being made. The man's ordeal has been severe. But for the nation, the overriding issue is not Lance's difficulties or his fitness for office but just what the affair has revealed about Jimmy Carter. Although the situations are worlds apart in both kind and importance, that familiar Nixonian question is at least remotely relevant: What did he know and when did he know it? Indeed, as various investigations continued last week, some officials who had been involved in checking Lance's record prior...
Despite the ordeal still ahead of him, it seems probable that Lance can now ride out the storm. Predicted Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan: "This thing is not going to end tomorrow or next week, but it won't go on much longer." At his press conference, Lance made it clear that, Carter willing, he intended to stay hi office. Said he: "My ability to carry out my job has not been damaged...
...still alive. Most of Cercedilla's villagers however, are too young to remember the war, and to them Montalvo's reappearance was strange and almost incomprehensible, part of a Spanish past they never knew. Said Mayor Enrique Espinosa, who was born a month after Montalvo's ordeal began: "I embraced him and told him we all are glad to have him back among us, and he just kept saying Gracias, gracias, gracias.' We will never know what he did in the war and 11 never ask him. I've never asked my own father...
...help prepare air travelers for their ordeal on the ground, TIME, with the aid of correspondents around the world, has compiled the following rating guide,* taking into account such matters as accessibility and services, though not safety. Following are our assessments of the ten busiest U.S. airports (in order of busyness), four in Europe and six in the Far East...
...week's end the Soviets allowed a U.S. newsman to leave after a six-day ordeal that illustrated how seriously the Russians are taking their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...