Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter claims that the troubled and uncertain times between the U.S. and Mexico are gone forever [Oct. 8]. Presumably there will be no trouble from the American side toward Mexico as long as Mexico has black gold...
Though Kennedy's overall philosophy sometimes seems uncertain, there is no doubt about his skill at the profession of politics. He has a natural instinct for the feel and flavor of it, the ebb and flow of events, the camaraderie of the people involved. His expertise is both instinctive and the result of years of training, first under the aegis of his brothers and then in the Senate. He became a Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant...
...help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still remains uncertain. But now Byrd will be using his proven talents as a cloakroom cajoler and persuader on the undecided Senators; among them he hopes to find the dozen or so additional votes that SALT II seems to need...
Prospects Uncertain...
...POLITICAL LEFT has been in steady retreat for almost a decade now. Ever since Nixon took his massacre of Honest George to be a mandate to concentrate power and wipe out dissent, the left has been unfocused, uncertain, disorganized, and increasingly a non-force in national politics. The rise of a well-financed, politically savvy, media-smart New Right has hastened the public's giving-in to mega-corporate power...