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Unlike Carter, White says, Reagan reinforced that image even when dealing with the touchiest of issues. When he fired his long-time campaign manager John Sears, for instance, Reagan actually made himself seem more in control, by reasserting dominance over his campaign. By contrast, White reminds us, incumbent Carter courted notorious image problems after he sacked various staff members, and his frequent shakeups led the media to brand him as petty...
SURPRISINGLY alcohol is one of the very touchiest subjects on campus. That's alcohol as in beet and wine--Michelob and Gallo...
...newspaperman, the touchiest of all charges is bias, since he labors constantly to scrub his story free of it. He must be doing well at this, for people who think newspapers are unfair to labor, business, consumerists or environmentalists amount to less than 15% in each category. That statistic speaks better for impersonal journalism than its critics give it credit...
...resume the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt, how to deal with what promised to be a redoubled threat against them from the Palestinian guerrillas, whether to reconsider their stand against yielding any of the occupied West Bank, and how to improve their testy relations with Washington. Probably the touchiest question of all was whether these decisions should continue to be entrusted to the nine-month-old Begin government...
...touchiest problems inherited by the Carter Administration was the case of former CIA Director Richard M. Helms. It brought into play questions of national security, loyalty, perjury and, in some ways, the future of the intelligence agency and its directors. Last week the case was settled in a manner that did not completely satisfy anybody but seemed a thoroughly reasonable compromise...