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...worst of Carter, the President. Rarely in the past 3½ years have we seen the President so focused and eloquent on a problem???a problem that never should have been, and even now should be relegated to the lawyers who love to niggle. In a world that is stalled and frightened, with only a handful of men and women wielding the power to address the malaise, Jimmy Carter, as so often in his stewardship, confused his personal and political concerns with his larger duties as President. While most Americans surely felt admiration for Carter the man, there hovered...
...home, the Carter plan had some early supporters. Said Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "The time has come for us to join the President in attacking the problem???and stop attacking each other." Claimed a spokesman for Otto Eckstein's Data Resources, Inc., a highly respected economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main...
Like most Government programs, Impact Aid began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem???and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu...
...televised speech last week, the President concentrated on this 103-minute conversation, trying to strengthen the weakest link in his defense. At issue is his seeming authorization of hush money to buy Hunt's continued silence. He argued that he considered paying only because a national security problem???which he did not further identify?was involved. In the end, he said, he "did not intend the further payment to Hunt or anyone else be made," but he conceded that his words on the tapes were ambiguous...
...policemen are armed with more lethal weapons than some of history's major wars required plus Mace and Pepper Fog, undercover agents, computers and helicopters. The best cops have also learned new techniques for cooling crowds instead of using those weapons. Yet street crime?the worst problem???is so rampant that police are fast becoming the nation's most frustrated minority. In fact, roughly half of all serious crimes are never reported, often because numbed victims expect no help from overburdened police. Between 70% and 80% of police effort is spent not on crime but on hushing blaring radios, rescuing...