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...treason in Moscow, he was speedily convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison and a hard-labor camp. The accusation: spying for a foreign intelligence service that was obviously, though it was not explicitly stated, the CIA. Although President Carter had categorically denied the charge, Washington?for humanitarian reason???was exploring the possibility of exchanging two Russian spies arrested in New Jersey for Shcharansky...
...Carter's strength in the South in 1976 could be his weakness in the next election: "If those [white] switchers do not ?for any reason???vote for him in 1980, it is unlikely that he will win again." In 1976, the authors argue, Southern whites set aside their conservatism to vote for liberal Carter because they felt "the idea that 'a Southerner couldn't be elected President' was an idea whose time had come ?and gone." Yet would they feel compelled to make that point again? The authors think not, citing the Kennedy experience: after Republican Catholics voted...
...kind of "energy NATO" that would give the U.S. a chance to try its strategy for bringing down oil prices. If the citizens of the oil-importing countries can be persuaded to adopt conservation measures, and if a formula for limiting exports is accepted, then?the Americans optimistically reason???the oil exporters would start to quarrel over how to share the shrinking market. This could eventually weaken and perhaps break up the oil cartel, permitting prices to respond to the demands of an uncontrolled marketplace...
...George McGovern's prairie, the dreams faded in the '20s. Mitchell would never be Detroit. For some reason???climate, falling farm prices, no jobs?people left South Dakota. Instead of the sunny optimism that glowed through the hard years in California, there was little more than grasshoppers and blizzards in answer to the prayers of country parsons. They were people who felt overpowered not only by the elements but by other men. McGovern saw it from the front pew, saw it when he hunted rabbits over the parched countryside. Always there were the Scriptures ringing in his head?someone worse...
...that force, at best, offers only temporary solutions. What the American university needs above all is a new integrity?moral authority, the unsolicited respect of the young and the old alike. Only thus can the university be immune to extremism and able to follow its calling of truth and reason???the role that Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University defined as providing an "environment for the continuous polishing of one mind by another...