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...scarcely the most burning issue of foreign policy. Some members of a Cabinet-level policy review committee favored selling military equipment to King Hassan II of Morocco; others on the panel feared that doing so would tie the U.S. too closely to another shaky throne. When a story about the disagreement appeared in the Washington Post last October, hardly anyone noticed-except Jimmy Carter, whose wrath led to an extreme step that no other Administration had taken to try to stop leaks to the press...
Though Griffiths has been credited with making RCA competitive once again in television manufacturing and other electronic products, his record with NBC hardly merits a peacock. In 1976, when Griffiths assumed the throne at RCA, the corporation earned $106.9 million, of which 32% came from the network. Last year RCA earnings totaled only $105.6 million, with NBC accounting for a mere 17%. Said John Reidy, a broadcast-industry analyst with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.: "If the broadcast division is not the premiere division in that company, then it is a problem...
...operations-provided that Amman is notified in advance and that the attacks are mounted inside the West Bank. Such a Jordanian decision would reflect both King Hussein's dismay over the state of U.S.-Jordanian relations, which he said last month were the poorest since he assumed the throne 27 years ago, and his conviction that the autonomy negotiations are at a dead...
...moment, the Bombers are battling the ever-fearsome Birds from the north for first place. Look for the Sox and the Maryland Pigeons to make a run for it, but the champs will reclaim the throne. And we are not ashamed...
This is, in a profoundly real way, Jimmy Carter's problem. He is so personally and mercifully tied up with the small things and the individual people he meets at whatever level, from the street to the throne, that he cannot act when the larger realities of the world require him to risk lives and fortunes. For all the President's bluster and fuss over three years, he has not taken a single real step across that Rubicon of power, where there is risk, where the solution lies in moving determinedly ahead with no lines of retreat...