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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation ?and his own presidency?out of its "downhill spin"? Much of the discussion at Camp David focused on the need for changes in Carter's staff, and perhaps in the Cabinet. A reshuffling is coming, White House insiders said last week, but it probably will stop far short of what many summit guests urged and thought Carter would carry...
...eager though undeclared candidate for the job. But he had a point that haunted many. It was estimated that Carter's notes ran to hundreds of pages. From such a mishmash of people, prejudice and points of view, how can an executive distill any rational policy in so short a time? Many thought he could not, that this was another demonstration of Carter's mistaken idea of how an executive does his job. He may overwhelm himself with too many facts, to the point that he cannot finally make a decision with vision and conviction...
...Jimmy Connors, 26, the temperamental American who won the title in 1974. Their eagerly awaited match turned out to be a reprise of last year's championship rout. Once again, Borg triumphed in straight sets with the loss of only seven games, and once again he needed a short time to do it-106 min., three less than last year...
Abortion. The court also stuck to its pro-abortion stand with a decision last week that struck down a Massachusetts law requiring minors to get parental consent. But the decision stopped short of giving minors an absolute right to an abortion, and left the precise boundaries of minors' rights still unsettled...
Their infatuation was short-lived. Maass details the lightning arrests-76,000 political undesirables jailed even before Hitler entered Vienna. He charts the merciless Aryanization of businesses and the swift disappearance of Jews from public life. He records the beginnings of a resistance that would grow through the war: 13 young Austrians refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler; Socialist Otto Haas, building his network of anti-Nazi information; Father Roman Karl Scholz founding his Austrian Freedom Movement. All were caught and executed...