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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glass hurtled like cannon shot through the air. Outside, the death-dealing funnel tossed cars hundreds of yards in the air, flattening some and buckling others. Inside the mall, there was carnage. "People were screaming, and there was blood all over the place," said Graf. "A man lay on top of me. His clothes were ripped to shreds, and he was covered with blood...
...more than two years, Jimmy Carter has tolerated his Cabinet members' shortcomings, forgiven their mistakes and ignored the advice of outsiders that he shake up the top level of his Administration or even fire some people. But now Carter is beginning to have second thoughts. Reports TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian: "According to close aides, Carter is dissatisfied with the quality of certain advice and with some of the decision making beneath him. Mindful of his wobbly standing in the polls, he is determined to improve the Cabinet's performance...
...seem unprepared or uncertain. After hearing several high-level staffers in the Oval Office de bate how he should announce his energy policy, Carter angrily shut off the discus sion and bluntly ordered, "Get your act to gether." Now, say aides, he intends to put similar pressure on top-level officials out side the White House. Among them...
...James Schlesinger. "He feels shafted by Schlesinger," says a top presidential aide. The President believes that the Energy Secretary has shown insensitivity toward Iran and bollixed negotiations for Mexican gas by insulting Mexico's envoys. Carter no longer relies on Schlesinger alone for advice on energy policy. In preparing for his energy speech earlier this month, the President reached around the Energy Secretary and invited all Cabinet members to chip in with ideas. Last week. Carter named Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to head the Administration team that will lobby for the windfall profits tax-in Congress, and deliberately left...
...varsity eight took the San Diego race, which featured the nation's top collegiate crews, by 4.4 seconds over California and by 11.9 seconds over the fifth-place Bruins...