Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just when the U.S. seems on the verge of doing something about the energy crisis, the public loses interest in it. This is the problem that Jimmy Carter thought he faced last week, with Congress on vacation and the long gasoline lines of early summer fading from memory. The President and his advisers decided that he had to make some dramatic move to keep the energy issue before the public...
...nearly three years, there have been only a few good stories about Jimmy Carter as a human being at work in the White House. This shortage may provide an insight into his problem in governing...
...effect, tie Israel's right to exist, as implied in Resolution 242, with international recognition of the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Through this ingenious strategy, so the hypothesis went, the moderate Arabs were gently nudging the Carter Administration to come to grips with the Palestinian problem by October. If by that time the U.S. failed to respond to the Arab appeal and continued to yield to Israeli obstinacy, the Saudis could simply cut back on their oil production, once again causing the U.S., and its President, acute distress...
...flatly: "The Patriotic Front [leaders] are going to a constitutional conference called by the decolonizing power." Nyerere suggested, however, that the British government might have a much harder time getting the Muzorewa-Smith bloc to the conference table. Snapped back Mrs. Thatcher: "If Julius Nyerere can deal with his problem," i.e., producing the guerrilla leaders, "I hope he will accept that I can deal with mine...
Thach claimed that Hanoi has been holding secret talks with American officials on diplomatic ties. Serious discussions were indeed held in 1978, but the talks went nowhere because of American objections to the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the repressive policies that caused the refugee problem...