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While Republicans grinned and snickered, Good Soldier O'Neill defended the White House bill as another step toward an egalitarian America, but he did not have his heart in his speech. He actually sounded as though he were apologizing for the President, and he pointedly told the White House that he would not "twist any wrists" on behalf of the bill. Referring to the fact that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and other Administration officials were still hotly lobbying for the measure even as the bells summoned Congressmen to their seats, Illinois Republican John Anderson castigated the "late-blooming...
...Alexandria, Sadat took an almost identical line. "I am optimistic by nature," he declared. "Whatever happens, I shall decide the next step later. To use the British proverb, 'Let us not cross the bridge until we reach...
...employee of the Champalimaud industrial empire, Portugal's second largest financial complex, he once served as Minister of Industry in Soares' government - at Eanes' insistence. Nobre da Costa is known as a free-enterpriser who gets things done no matter how many toes he has to step on. Says an auto executive: "I didn't exactly reach for a bottle of champagne when he was named [Premier], but I must admit that he will inspire confidence among businessmen...
Diffusing power. A favorite word of the Vatican II years was "collegiality," referring to power sharing between the Pope and the 2,280 bishops across the world. Paul took the dramatic step of forming an international Synod of Bishops, then made it a forum without power. It met five times during his reign and never had any discernible effect on his thought or action. Last week a pillar of the conciliar generation, Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, said that carrying out the duties of the papacy is "humanly impossible." To ease the burden, he proposed a "synodal" Pope...
...worry. Gould helpfully lists his "seven-step dialogue for mastering childhood demons." The last step: "Reach an integrated trustworthy view of reality unencumbered by the demonic past." That sort of advice reads more like Sheehy than Erikson. Gould's book shows that the adult-life research, despite its hankering for academic respectability, has lurched into the smog of self-help platitudes...