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...night this audience, out of conviction or nostalgia, or a little of both, cheered his plea for national health insurance, environmental protection and his $12 billion federal jobs program ("We cannot solve problems by throwing money at them, but we dare not throw out our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference...
...almost every political arena that Carter has entered, his conviction that fervid good will would carry the day has proved false, and in many instances has worsened the problems. His belief that the Soviets would respond to dramatic overtures to scrap many of their nuclear missiles helped to fuel the continuation of arms competition. Carter's human rights campaign is now viewed as having often embarrassed U.S. allies and hardened the opposition of adversaries. His vague notion, preached mostly by his friend and onetime U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, that the radical nations were our natural allies has been mocked...
...hope that the vessel, with accommodations for 1,326 passengers, could be converted into a floating hotel. Its sister ships, the Raffello and the Michelangelo, were purchased by Iran before the 1979 revolution for $18 million each, and are now used as floating barracks. The Leonardo's estimated scrap value: a little more than $1 million...
...Sunday, the day before the trial was to open, King rose early, ate breakfast and then suddenly overpowered his wife and tied her to a chair. Said he: "I love you and I don't want to hurt you." He scribbled the cryptic passage on a scrap of paper, armed himself and sallied forth in his white Ford Fiesta to make "war" on the parishioners...
...semiprofessional boxer, Daly bought the two-year-old ailing World with $50,000 worth of poker winnings. The carrier was no prize. Its debts totaled $250,000, and its assets were only seven planes: two leased war-surplus transports and five unairworthy flying boats that later were sold for scrap...