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...uncertain and apprehensive about what tax reform might bring. Through word and deed, Carter has also antagonized many other key voting groups. Farmers were disturbed because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because he did not put up protectionist walls against imports, and wanted him to endorse a larger increase in the minimum wage...
...make a detour to Jerusalem on his way to Cairo. "Haven't been there for years," he said. "I guess they consider me public enemy No. 1." Holden was joking, though it is true that Israeli officials considered him pro-Arab because of his sensitive reporting on the plight of Palestinians. Holden had also criticized Arab left-wingers for "their stupid boasts and futile gestures," and some friends believe he may have been the victim of Arab extremists...
Since a subscription to the daily Gazette then cost $56 a year, Roesgen accepted the offer as a way of dramatizing the farmers' plight. Then, sowing the seeds of a new kind of circulation campaign, he ran a front-page headline announcing that the paper would swap print for wheat at the federal support price of $3.05 per bu. (Meanwhile, the subscription price was raised to $61-or 20 bu. of wheat.) In ten days the Gazette had exchanged 100 new subscriptions for 2,000 bu. of wheat, which it stored in a parking lot next to the newspaper...
...report on prisoners of war in South Viet Nam, he found the soldier too good to be true: a gung-ho, ribbon-covered lifer who was being quietly drummed out of the Army for uncovering U.S. war crimes. CBS broadcast Lando's report of Herbert's plight, and Herbert later became a talk-show hero among foes of the war; his 1973 autobiography, Soldier, hit the bestseller lists...
...human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer (Gordon Gould), the fa ther of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. Yet, in seek ing the truth each character continues to live out a lie. Why? The governess offers an answer in a gently despairing...