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Young's Exit In letting Andrew Young go [Aug. 27], the White House lost the best Ambassador to the United Nations in recent memory. For a brief period, he made the U.N. newsworthy, gained some valuable good will in the Third World and rediscovered a weapon that modern diplomacy has forgotten: speaking the truth. Even the diplomats will be sorry...
...many ways, this absence of hostility toward Carter is remarkable, given the bleak popular mood. The State of the Nation indicator, a TIME index measuring how people feel things are going in the country and their confidence in the future, registered a low of 19% in the most recent survey. A year ago, the indicator was 34% and in March 1977, shortly after Carter took office, it stood...
...findings of the TIME survey did not register much hope that these problems will soon be solved. Those questioned had even less faith in Congress than in the President to solve the energy problem. Despite the preachings of the Carter Administration, 63% said the recent gasoline drought was "exaggerated." Still, the problem of energy was rated a serious worry by 60% of those polled, perhaps reflecting the notion that whether the shortage was exaggerated or contrived, it still existed...
...worse in the long run may be American resentment. Although a recent Gallup poll found that 57% of those questioned said that refugees would be welcome in their communities, a call-in poll sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle found that 73% of 24,000 phoners opposed the influx of boat people...
...while surveys show that compared with America, living costs are up to 73% higher in Switzerland and about 40% higher in West Germany and France, it is also true that European salaries are occasionally richer. A recent study by a U.S. management consulting firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, calculates that the chief executive of a typical medium-size company in Germany earns 50% more than his U.S. counterpart, 40% more in Belgium and The Netherlands, and 20% more in France. Business International, a Geneva research firm, notes that in Switzerland today, a receptionist now gets $19,700 a year...