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These are among the findings of a survey of 1,024 people completed this month for TIME by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. The poll found that a record low 23% of those questioned feel things are going well in this country, compared with 45% in June 1977. The poll also found that Carter, who rose substantially in popularity in the wake of his Camp David meetings last September with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, has again fallen into low esteem in the country. The President has lost important ground to all his political opponents...
...public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau (SRB), the Gestapo-like organization that was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ugandans murdered during Amin's rule...
...exactly under-achieved either. His wife Elena, 62, an engineer by training, presides over the chemical industry and is a member of the two highest party bodies, the Permanent Bureau and the Executive Political Committee. Elder Son Valentin, 32, is a physicist at Rumania's sole nuclear research facility. Daughter Zoe, 29, is head of the mathematics department at the Henri Coanda Institute of Inventions. Son Nicolae ("Nicu"), 27, is secretary of the Union of Communist Youth...
...When something fouls up in science, the government will ask the academy to study the problem, but basically the academy is a self-perpetuating body whose main function is to elect new members," Griffiths, who was elected for his research relating higher calculus to classical geometry, said yesterday...
Martin has done research in statistical physics and condensed matter physics...