Word: seniors
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...White House has intimidated many occupants in the past, but not the Carters of Plains. Declares Rosalynn: "This is home." She adds: "What made it easy was that we were all together again." "All" is the eight of them-the senior Carters, Amy, Jeff and Wife Annette, Chip and Wife Caron and five-month-old James Earl Carter IV-the most extended family to dwell in the Executive mansion since the expansive days of the Franklin Roosevelts. On a recent Saturday night, the President and First Lady volunteered to baby-sit. "Jimmy pushed the baby around the South Lawn," Rosalynn...
...kind of Geneva Conference the Arabs have in mind. Despite major differences on the question of Israeli withdrawals and the Palestinians, the Jordanians were happy with the results of the talks, now sensing that Washington is coming around to the Arab view on both issues. Jordan felt, said one senior official, "increasing support internationally and in the U.S. for the Arab demands...
BORN. To Field Marshal Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, 49, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, 26, the senior of his current wives: twin boys, her third and fourth children, his 33rd and 34th; in Kampala, Uganda...
...senior White House energy expert puts it: "The new department is a curious kind of hybrid." Among other things, it inherits the entire Federal Energy Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration and some 50 functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably...
...bankers and politicians round the world almost unanimously applauded Witteveen's initiative. Irving S. Friedman, senior adviser for international operations at Citibank, has gone so far as to advocate an increase in total IMF resources to a staggering $100 billion. Says he: "I am not looking at what might be enough in 1977.1 am looking at what is going to be enough...