Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell sat in the Oval Office chewing over a familiar problem. FBI Director Clarence Kelley was due to step down by the end of 1977, but Carter and Bell had no replacement in sight; they were not happy with the five candidates proposed by a special committee. "My God," sighed Bell, "I still wish we could get ole Frank Johnson to take...
...attacking the basic problem of job creation, the first sound step is to recognize that the Government cannot and should not try to do it all. Given the public's dismay with inflation and high taxes, there is nothing close to the political consensus that would be needed to support liberal cries for massive job programs or a "Marshall Plan for the cities." Despite some successes, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive...
TIME Associate Editor Frederic Golden has just written a book, Colonies in Space (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), dealing with the next step the success of the Enterprise may lead to. Golden predicts the first space colony by the year 2001. An odd date, that: just one year after the new treaty gives Panama control of the canal...
...Lance had, at the very least, violated Carter's requirement that appointees avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and so might have to resign. If Lance's position should become untenable, Carter's associates doubt that the President will have to ask his old buddy to step down. Said a top aide: "Bert will know if it's time...
Next month the U.S. and Cuba, which broke diplomatic relations in 1961, will establish "interest sections" in each other's capitals-a step toward eventual restoration of diplomatic and trade ties. In three days of talks, Church and Castro discussed a wide range of issues-including Castro's desire to get the U.S. trade embargo lifted-on which the Senator is expected to report back to Carter. Castro had promised he had something impor tant to offer Church-and so he did. Eighty-four American citizens and their families will be permitted to leave Cuba (the Americans...