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With the first primaries barely a year away, Carter has already begun mobilizing for the 1980 election. Democratic Party Treasurer Evan Dobelle, a former Republican mayor who changed parties to back Carter, is the leading candidate to head the President's re-election committee. Jordan, Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss and Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo will likely become the brain trust that plots broad strategy, while Dobelle manages daily campaign chores...
Several students said they look to the arts, especially music, for respite. "Strauss waltzes are the answer," a freshman said yesterday...
...year by calling for a $25 billion tax cut and a $60.6 billion budget deficit in fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. As late as March, misled by alarmist predictions from Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that a continued coal strike would cripple national production, Administration aides led by Robert Strauss forced on mine operators a settlement that will raise wages and benefits nearly 40% over three years...
...tendency of workers to demand big raises to catch up with past inflation and protect themselves against future price boosts, and of companies to pass along all cost increases and add a bit more, makes inflation accelerate. At first Carter contented himself with pleas for restraint and named Robert Strauss as special counsellor on inflation to do some mild jawboning. Strauss's six-month tenure will be remembered mostly for one rueful wisecrack: "The score is inflation 100, Strauss 0." In October, Carter replaced him with CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn and proclaimed formal guidelines with some teeth. The rules...
...Richard Strauss: Salome (Soprano Hildegard Behrens, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Karl-Walter Bohm, Baritone Jose Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...