Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the non-candidate nor his aides seem to be encouraging or coordinating these efforts. Kennedy feels strongly that a direct challenge to Carter would seriously split the party, as Chairman White warns, but the draft efforts and his refusal to disavow, once and for all, his candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed...
...that outside help, military experts believe Nkomo's 17,000-man army is deteriorating; moreover, the long-feuding Mugabe and Nkomo groups have not yet settled on a common military strategy. That could give the Rhodesian army an important advantage, except that its morale and fighting power also seem to be declining as experienced white officers continue to leave. Thus, conclude some observers, it is not unlikely that two poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly disciplined armies may wind up slogging away at each other for years to come...
...Government subsidies and price supports, growers still get twice the world level, or at least 150 per Ib. Now they are pushing legislation to add another eight-tenths of 10 to supports, and to keep the price rising by a full 7% annually until 1981. The raise may not seem like much, but each one-penny increase adds $500 million a year to Americans' grocery expenses...
Sugar growers claim that they need the increase to cover their rising costs, but for the first time in memory Congress does not seem so ready to swallow their sweet talk. With voters fuming over sky-high food prices, many Congressmen would just as soon see the bill never come to a vote. Says Massachusetts Republican Margaret Heckler, a member of the House Agriculture Committee: "Inflation is the nation's No. 1 enemy, and things just cannot stay the same for easy subsidies. The sugar bill represents the legislative process at its worst...
Amid the chaos, the prospects for further disruptions in Iran's exports of petroleum seem dangerously large. Should they occur, Congress would hurriedly have to dust off the mandatory conservation programs that legislators had rejected when it appeared that the U.S. could scrape by without them...