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Says a former member of Ford's Cabinet: "Carter has not made that transition from running for office to the job of leading the nation. All Presidents sooner or later must get rid of people who put them into office in favor of those who know what to do. Carter has refused to do that...
Bhutto, who was unseated by a military coup last July 5, is in deep, deep trouble. The most serious accusation against him is, in effect, murder by proxy. He allegedly ordered his paramilitary Federal Security Force to get rid of a troublesome opposition politician, Ahmed Raza Kasuri. During the second of two attacks on Kasuri in 1974, gunmen sprayed the politician's car with bullets; they missed Kasuri but killed his father. According to government sources, five security-force officials have testified that they were acting on Bhutto's orders at the time...
...whole affair seems an extreme case of office politics. "There were always rival factions within [Southwestern] Bell " says one insider. "When Angus Alston the chairman of the board, was dying of cancer in 1974, a new group came into power and wanted to get rid of their enemies, Gravitt and Ashley." Pat Maloney the flamboyant lawyer for Gravitt's widow, pointed to a Bell organization chart in the San Antonio courtroom; he accused Gravitt's successor, Chester L. Todd, of instigating the investigation that led to the executive's death only to get his job Asked Maloney...
Your article about Swedish racism certainly points to a growing problem of Swedish society, but I cannot get rid of the idea that you merely project a great deal of your own problems concerning racial injustice onto a country in which the individual has long enjoyed far more freedom, tolerance and humaneness than in your...
...bend his rigid rules a bit. As he noted at his press conference last week in connection with another touchy subject, "There are many things in life that are not fair"*-and perhaps he has come to recognize that one of those things may be his demand that Lance rid himself so precipitately of his stock holdings. The President's decision to relax his demand for Lance's sake undoubtedly aroused sympathy among Democrats on the committee. Besides, the gregarious Lance seems to have made a favorable impression on a great many Congressmen during his six months...