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Just a little while back, when Jimmy Carter began to prepare his latest assault on inflation, his advisers predicted that restraining consumer credit card privileges might have some symbolic value but little practical impact on the problem. Carter wondered a bit about the advice but put a paragraph about credit cards in his speech. The response from the public was beyond anything predicted. Some people mailed their cards to the White House, others ground them up, and a lot of folks began buying with cash. Carter's gut had been right...
...Reagan's strengths as Governor was his ability to assemble a staff of experienced advisers and department heads and to delegate considerable authority to them. He embraced an aide's scheme of "mini-memos," four-paragraph briefs setting out l) the nature of a problem, 2) the basic facts involved, 3) terse arguments for and against various options, and 4) the staff recommendation on what to do. At the bottom were boxes for Reagan to check yes or no. While critics claimed that this showed Reagan's inability or unwillingness to grapple with complex issues, the procedure...
...Friday afternoon, McHenry had persuaded other members of the Security Council to delete the paragraph on religious freedom. In telephone talks with Vance, McHenry was advised to seek a postponement of the vote until Saturday, which would provide more time to get Carter's approval of an affirmative U.S. stand. McHenry got the delay...
...main punch is in para graphs six and seven. The sixth paragraph "calls upon the Government and people of Israel to ... dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem." The seventh paragraph "Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connection with settlements in the occupied territories...
...only paragraph that was finally deleted from the resolution, at U.S. insistence, was one demanding that Israel "respect and guarantee religious freedoms and practices in Jerusalem and other holy places in the occupied Arab territories as well as the integrity of places of religious worship." In fact, Israel's observance of these guarantees has been so scrupulous as to defy criticism by truly neutral observers...