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Some Air Force hardliners, still smarting from the B-l experience, have insinuated that the J.C.S. chairmanship was the reward Jones got for going along with the White House. To be sure, Carter, like most Presidents, prizes team players. But the main element in Jones' selection was the problem-solving managerial talent that he had demonstrated during his four years as head of the Air Force and prior to that as commander in chief...
...White House a President wastes half his time on trivia, Eisenhower estimates. He recalls his brother's being constantly interrupted by a tap on the Oval Office door followed by an invasion of the alfalfa growers or some such organization. Roosevelt once told Milton Eisenhower: "In this job you have a hundred responsibilities each day. You can redeem only four or five of them...
...onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members and supporters." The implication that Jordan and Hooks had been subverted by Jewish donations was oddly timed, because it became clear last week that some black organizations are getting Arab cash. Jackson's PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) acknowledged receiving an $8,000 contribution from a group that...
...landholders. Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Salisbury's biracial government, immediately accepted it, but Mugabe and Nkomo raised a number of objections. The guerrilla leaders were particularly incensed at the idea of asking Zimbabwe's blacks to buy back lands that they believe were stolen by white pioneers in the 1890s...
...urging of the front-line leaders, Nkomo and Mugabe adopted a face-saving compromise and rejoined the talks. They dropped their objections to guarantees of white citizenship and pension rights, leaving the land settlement as the only outstanding issue to be resolved. Carrington's assurances, backed by the promise of U.S. aid, removed that obstacle...