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According to a survey of public opinion conducted for TIME Dec. 10 through Dec. 12 by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., Carter leads Kennedy 53 to 33 among Democrats and independents.* That result, obtained from telephone interviews with 1,041 registered voters, reflects one of the most dramatic political turnabouts in modern American political history. Before the Iranian crisis, which began with the embassy seizure on Nov. 4, Carter trailed Kennedy by ten points, meaning that he has surged 30 percentage points in one month. As recently as August, Kennedy led Carter by 33 percentage points, which means there...
...with the United States and sincerely trying to mend bilateral relations between Iran and the United States." Summoned to Tehran, supposedly for consultations, Entezam was arrested at the airport on charges of disloyalty. Meanwhile, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's chief religious rival, went into seclusion. As a result, his disappointed followers, the Azerbaijanis, who had been demonstrating for two weeks in Tabriz, suspended their protest against the central government...
...that OPEC'S policies have been bloating the world's oil bill by $40 billion to $60 billion a year. Says he: "We need that cartel like we need a tourniquet around our necks. Any form of free competition is going to lead to a more balanced result...
...unwillingness or inability to save and invest. While the U.S. spent scarcely 10% of its national income on new factories, mines, tools and transportation systems, its allies and competitors the West Germans and the Japanese were investing 15% and 16.2%, respectively, of their incomes in such capital goods. One result: U.S. productivity, which had risen an average 3% a year in the 1960s, declined by more than 1%. There were other reasons for this deterioration in production per hour worked. Among them: the heavy burden of Government regulations, the entry of so many untrained first-time workers into the labor...
...before the government's forces have been decisively defeated. Exhorted a ZANLA manifesto found near the bodies of several whites killed in a town near the Mozambique border: "Down with the ceasefire. Forward with the war." More important, many of the guerrillas are unlikely to passively accept any result other than a victory by the Patriotic Front in the elections. Rather than turning in their guns, a number of them are known to be caching them in caves or underground. Warns a white Rhodesian officer: "Whoever loses the election will say to them, start digging...