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...problem that has plagued Carter's handling of foreign affairs is a disconcerting tendency of his aides to disagree in public about U.S. policy. Despite a stern lecture only three weeks ago, in which...
...President himself feels unfairly besieged by the rash of criticism of his foreign policy. He thinks that his show of restraint should be seen not as weakness but rather as the patient forbearance of a powerful nation and its leader. Indeed, in all his public speeches, even as a candidate, Carter usually lowered his voice to make his main points, apparently expecting that he would thus gain more respect than if he indulged himself in stridency...
...neither the commercial networks nor public broadcasters have agreed to pick up the programs once they start. Some 200 cable-TV stations, however, have signed up to make gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House available to their subscribers. Given the chamber's arcane procedures and routine business, not even Tip O'Neill expects to rival Mork as a TV personality, and the ratings of the soaps will not be threatened by the daily travails and dramas in the Big House on the Hill...
...Mardi Gras Day? One by one the parade dates came around and the floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
...Public sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police conduct. Last week the police reduced their demands, but the strike went...