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Certainly, Carter has been hurt by the Lance affair. His reputation as the champion of ethical purity has been permanently tarnished?a point that Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth hammered home with devastating effectiveness last week merely by citing two Carter comments before the Ribicoff committee: "Just staying within the law will never be enough for a Carter campaign or a Carter Administration." And: "The Watergate tragedy showed that concealment of a mistake or impropriety can be more serious in some instances than the impropriety itself." Just how seriously Carter's effectiveness has been damaged is less clear...
...This is going to be a full-scale inquiry," says one Senator on the committee. "Once and for all, we're going to settle this issue. We're going to get to the bottom of the Lance affair." Adds an aide to Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, "Bert's avuncular, easygoing style won't wash this time." Three particular areas of Lance's testimony from previous hearings interest the committee...
...England, were in the record crowd of 77,691 watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele and introduced him to a delighted David. Was Kissinger a Cosmos rooter? Said he: "If you know anything about the passions aroused by soccer, you'd know no professional diplomat would ever admit what...
When Lance faced the Senate committee last week, it seemed briefly that he might receive a harsh grilling on most of those topics. Said Delaware Republican William Roth Jr.: "What bothers me is that the agreement [Lance's sale promise] was announced with great fanfare, but when the going gets rough, there's a request for an extension." Republican Charles Percy asked whether Lance's pronouncements on bank prime rates involved the "appearance of possible conflict of interest" and attempted to bore in further. But Georgia's Sam Nunn interjected: "How far can you extend this...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of fiscal services, said yesterday that the Roth proposal would probably not affect Harvard's aid programs, adding, however, that "since the amount of the parents' contribution and their taxes are part of the decision, it's conceivable that it could have an affect, but I would say it's almost insignificant, certainly...