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Sometimes the President finds it difficult to follow that advice. Jordan has been urging Carter, for instance, to resist attacking Ronald Reagan, to leave such criticism to the media. But the President has already started condemning his opponent. Carter and Jordan have had another disagreement over the Republican candidate. To the President's acute discomfort, Jordan hopes that Reagan will move well ahead of Carter in the polls. In Jordan's view, the Californian still has never been studied closely, and once Reagan is out in front he will not be able to stand the pressure. Says Jordan...
Even among fellow Slavs there are sharp tensions. Russians tend to regard Ukrainians as ne'er-do-well country cousins, an attitude that Ukrainians, with their distinct cultural traditions and strong ethnic pride, resent and resist. Out of deference to their numbers?42 million, the second largest nationality?the Soviet leadership has sought to create a limited partnership with the Ukrainians. They are the only non-Russians to have significant representation in the central elite...
...Russian Orthodox, the 4 million or more other Eastern Orthodox and the 43 million Muslims in the Soviet Union are much less harassed than the 2 million Soviet Jews, 4 million Roman Catholics and a small percentage of the country's 3 million Protestants who bitterly resist all state control of the church. Seven of these Protestant dissenters have lived in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for two years, seeking in vain to emigrate...
Viet Nam, the humiliation of American arms, made it respectable for young men to resist military service. The contempt and indifference that greeted the soldiers who fought the war when they returned home did not exactly glamorize military work, either. Broader international perspectives changed the view of soldiering. Detente (in its morally confusing juxtaposition with the Viet Nam War) seemed to remove the external threat to the U.S. It also encouraged cynicism: Why, asked the vulnerable young men with intimate reasons to wonder, should they sacrifice their lives fighting Communists pro patria at Khe Sanh when the President...
...Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...