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Perhaps the most degrading aspect of the system is the web of social segregation laws and customs known as petty apartheid. In this respect?unlike many others???the segregation is similar to that which existed in the U.S. South until the '60s. Petty apartheid includes everything from segregated buses to beaches and lunch counters. The government has promised to reduce the irritations of petty apartheid, and has made some progress. WHITES ONLY signs have disappeared from elevators and park benches in most cities; restaurants and hotels that are granted "international" status can now admit local blacks...
...inflation. But he did little to grapple with the nation's other problems. The U.S. is still moving into the post-Viet Nam and post-Watergate era, still struggling to recover from a deep recession. Revitalizing the economy, of course, will be Carter's immediate problem, but there are others???racial relations, Government reorganization, energy, welfare, health care?demanding fresh and strong leadership. To provide that, Carter will have to surmount the continuing doubts about himself, arbitrate the increasingly insistent demands of competing constituencies and establish himself as a President who can inspire Americans to be as good...
...chairman knows quite well that the agent will pass much of the money on to government officials, but will not be told their names and will not ask. If the payments were not made, he says, the company would not get the contract. In effect, the company?like many others???is being subjected to extortion...
...acutely aware that he was closing out a long chapter in American history. "It's been a pretty long era," Ford told reporters en route back to Washington. The withdrawal of the U.S. from Vietnamese affairs had lifted some burdens from his Administration, he said, "but it's added others???we'll have to wait and see how it balances...
...reduced charges, perhaps, by doing so." Moreover, according to an observer familiar with the investigation, the Government's case "is based principally, up to now, on the witnesses' testimony." If the case should ever go to trial in that form?one man's word against that of two others???a Vice President of the U.S. would almost certainly appear to a jury more believable than his accusers...