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...most difficult problems the nation faces is the continued high level of costly oil imports. Carter proposed an intricate plan precariously balancing the free market against new government controls to raise prices on gas and oil and encourage increases in domestic production. A major part of his program was defeated in Congress after 18 months of struggle. The failure to lead the crusade he so misguidedly dubbed the "moral equivalent of war" remains both an embarrassment to Carter and a source of potentially severe economic problems...
Since Africa is an area in which both the U.S. and China have sometimes shared a common interest, Carter was expected to explain how the U.S. attempt to implement the Anglo-American plan for Rhodesia has bogged down. The President may even indirectly solicit Teng's ideas about how China might help to counter Soviet expansionism on the African continent. In addition, Carter was likely to feel Teng out for any discernible shift from the traditional Chinese call for unilateral U.S. withdrawal from South Korea...
...year 2000 for attaining modernization. Is that a date of symbolic convenience, or does it have a rationale? Does China know how to plan that far ahead...
This season they were expected to pick up right where they left off. At first, everything appeared to be going according to plan. The fast-breaking Lions jumped off to a 9-4 record and even blew out St. Johns, 90-77. Then came what they are billing here as the "lost weekend." After blitzing Cornell, 82-62, the Lions suffered back-to-back losses to Brown and Yale last weekend and have now been virtually erased from the Ivy League title picture...
...preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever attitude that keeps everything running. It's all very pleasant. New cars wall-to-wall, French...