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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital's crowds were noticeably sparser than those that had greeted Richard Nixon in 1974. This may have been partly because Carter's presidential motorcade appeared on such short notice, partly because it rolled through the tranquil upper-middle-class suburb of Heliopolis rather than Cairo's crowded working-class quarter. Yet the smaller turnout may also have reflected the Cairenes' growing skepticism at the possibility of peace being near. Said one: "We have been waiting now for peace for more than a year. If Carter has brought peace, we can give him a better farewell...
...dice. Now he has to pull it off." But there was considerable debate over how much Carter would gain domestically from success. Such a triumph might temporarily strengthen his hand with the power barons in Washington and help him cope with a stubborn Congress, but political memories are short. Nor would success necessarily improve the President's public image for very long. Said New Hampshire Pollster Richard Bennett: "An agreement would help Carter, but the effect would not be lasting...
...Western newsmen were allowed to the war zone from the Chinese side, and only a very few approached it through Viet Nam. Only two U.S. news organizations, United Press International and CBS-TV, managed to get near the front for a short time. They accompanied U.S. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on an escorted excursion from Hanoi to Lang Son, and disproved the report that it had fallen to the Chinese...
Though Harvard had reluctantly agreed to lower the percentage of men in its student body from 80% to about 70%, that was still short of "equality." Many people doubted that Radcliffe's young, soft-spoken new "president would win further concessions, especially since Harvard's old guard feared that alumni donations would drop if more women replaced Harvard's sons. "I listened to the arguments very carefully," Horner recalls, "and finally said how interesting it was that all the evidence seemed to show that Harvard alumni had only male children...
...attitudes. Two weeks ago, Adams conceded that the "companies' resources are stretched in meeting the standards by 1985." For the first time he raised the possibility that the Government might help Detroit develop new engines and designs by allocating federal funds for research and development. But he stopped short of relaxing the Government's rigorous regulatory schedule...