Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown's critics in California say the postponement is caused by high confusion in Jerry's campaign tactics and strategy. Reports TIME West Coast Bureau Chief William Rademaekers: "The main problem seems to be that Jerry Brown has run down on issues and in the process worn out his welcome mats. The invitations from outside the state are not flowing in. He has difficulty finding the 'right' audience and, when he finds it, making the 'right' speech...
...main concern, as he explained last week in an interview with TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief Marsh Clark and correspondent David DeVoss: "Close to our borders there is a full-scale war. We have Communist subversion within the country. Added to that there is the refugee problem that undermines our stability. We need arms to preserve peace. Tell the U.S. Congress to come to Thailand to see the situation. Giving us a foreign military sales credit of $24 million is not enough. Thailand faces a war situation. It deserves a higher priority. We need antiaircraft weapons, tanks...
...Jimmy Carter's Cabinet shake-ups was the momentum that he had been building behind his staggeringly expensive, exceedingly complex and long overdue new energy program. That is doubly unfortunate, because the damage was self-inflicted, and even more because the plan makes a start on attacking a problem that will continue to menace the U.S. long after the switches in the Cabinet have faded in significance...
...controversial decision made by the board would be challenged as un constitutional by back-home politicians and environmentalists, and several of the countless legal battles might drag up slowly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Administration aides hope that the high court would reject the assault. But there is another problem: many of the quick decisions that the board could compel from state and local authorities would be "no." The board would have no power to amend local clean-air and other environmental laws...
...that, alas, was before Carter again distracted the nation's attention with his bewildering Cabinet shifts and gave Congress the added problem of trying to figure out who will be speaking for the Administration on energy. The distraction should not be allowed to last long. The energy question will remain urgent, and will demand solutions, long after Carter's formation of his new Cabinet-and after both he and the Congressmen who will be voting on his plans have left office...