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...minority leader of the Senate and a potential presidential rival in 1980, Howard Baker of Tennessee has been quite a bit of help to Jimmy Carter. He played a crucial role in getting the Panama Canal treaties passed, despite threats from the right wing of his own party to torpedo his presidential ambitions. He persuaded Senate Republicans to support Carter's proposal on plane sales to the Middle East, and outraged the powerful Jewish lobby. Last week, smarting from the blows he received over the plane deal, Howard dropped in at the White House for a chat with Jimmy...
...Carey, who propped him up as a straw man to draw away Beame's support in the primary, the governor dumped him. Now Cuomo draws most of his support from nervous Republicans, who have abandoned Goodman's foundering ship but are still holding out for a last chance to torpedo Koch...
...assemble this story of the men and women who flashed reports of Japanese ship and plane movements and rescued more than 100 downed pilots. A number of foundering sailors also owe their lives to the coastwatchers. One was a 26-year-old lieutenant (j.g.) named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose torpedo boat had been karate-chopped by the hull of a Japanese destroyer...
...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...
...same time, nothing can torpedo a negotiation faster than even a hint of disrespect. The Soviets want to be treated like a great power. "They're very sensitive to any notion that they're being treated as less than equals," says former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson...