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...anyone in the Administration could have smiled during last week's crisis, it was National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has long been trying to get Carter to take a tougher stance toward the Soviets, and who has long been paying particular attention to Afghanistan. Since July, he has regarded the leftist Afghanistan regime as vulnerable to the Muslim insurgents, and he has even enjoyed hinting, without saying so, that the U.S. might covertly aid those insurgents. To reporters and other visitors, he would recite statistics from secret cables that littered his desk. He could tick off the casualties...
George Bush said he felt "an increasing frustration and sense of urgency" about the U.S. position in the world. But he also vowed not to join other candidates in trying to "out-macho each other" by urging ever tougher action by the U.S. Said he: "I'm not going to play that game of 'I'll mine one harbor,' then the other guy says, 'I'll mine one harbor and bomb one airfield...
...entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story of Arlene, that same woman, who emerges from a long spell in prison to find that the four walls on the outside can be even tougher to escape than the padded walls on the inside...
...said the number of students with summa degrees is increasing despite the tougher rules because students have adjusted their academic programs to achieve summa status...
...committee instead wrote and approved a much tougher bill. It offers Chrysler federal guarantees of $1.25 billion and demands, as a firm precondition, major concessions from all who stand to benefit from the company. It also seeks the creation of an employee stock ownership plan, which some Senators are promoting as a way to give workers a stake in their firms and share in profit growth. But, following Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn's earlier attack on the "outrageous" United Auto Workers' wage settlement with Chrysler, the committee's most contentious call was for a three-year wage...