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...Georgians gloried in being outsiders," says a former Carter Cabinet officer about the inner White House circle. "They never understood?and do not today???that if you are going to govern, then you have to reach out." A couple of years ago, when trouble for Carter's programs was developing on the Hill and it was apparent that the gap between Congress and the White House was widening, Carter was urged to select certain compatible Senators and Congressmen and get to know them over dinner or at other social occasions. Maine's then Senator Edmund Muskie was viewed...
...suddenly found themselves under Israeli rule after the Six-Day War have no question about their identity; they are Palestinians. But for the Arabs living within Israel's pre-1967 borders as Israeli citizens?a community that has grown from 150,000 in 1948 to nearly half a million today???there has been a continual tug of loyalties that exploded last week in the Galilee riots...
Although the Administration's studies have yet to produce specific guidance for the next decade, Laird and others in the Administration believe that the American defense establishment of the future will be significantly smaller than it is today???and even somewhat below the pre-Viet Nam level as the war burden lessens. While the fiscal problem and Congress' attitude force Laird to cut more and earlier than he otherwise might, some of the reductions seem?despite his protests?to fit into his long-term intentions. In appearing to be dragged into making economies, of course, Laird also maintains his credentials...
Probably no force could find more than lukewarm approval in the ghetto today???so deep are the enmities, so profound the suspicions of the fuzz or, sometimes, "Chuck,"* The very presence of cops in the slums, many Negro militants maintain, represents society's goal to protect the white man's property and suppress the black man's right...
...talking about these values, students sometimes act as if they had discovered justice and love. They also ignore the reality that undergraduates throughout history have always had ideals?some of which have been fulfilled by adult society. Condemnation of their elders occasionally comes too easily for the young today???witness the Berkeley coed who glibly condemns men who "sell their soul for higher salaries, then sink into suburbia, where the deepest thing they read is TV Guide...