Word: whited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this complacency faded rapidly late last week when the greenback plunged 2% in just one day against the West German mark, to the lowest it has been since last October. The weakness caught Washington unprepared. Said one Treasury official: "There simply isn't the mental horsepower in the White House to deal with this kind of problem. They are preoccupied with Ham Jordan snorting coke...
...talks started anew in June but went nowhere until a month ago, when the U.S. signaled that unless the Mexicans bargained seriously, López Portillo could skip his White House visit this week...
...Mexicans then tabled their $3.63 price, which is to be adjusted quarterly to match OPEC price moves. The White House decided to accept before events drove the price even higher. As it is, the Canadians, who supply 5% of the U.S.'s gas needs, are expected to push their current price of $2.80 up to $3.45 next year...
...that the more conventional CBS and NBC coverage is all that free of theater. Why should correspondents have to place themselves outside the White House or the Capitol in the sun or the wind to speak their piece when it would be easier and cheaper to get into a cab and broadcast right from the studio? At least all three network news shows are no longer lookalikes. One of them overworks the eye in the interest of excitement. The other two spend vast sums photographing events but don't let pictures distract from the serious business of dispensing information...
...everyone acknowledges that the Soviet brigade does not violate the 1962 Soviet-American agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. Nor does it come anywhere near as close to straining the spirit of that agreement as did the berthing of Russian atomic submarines in Cuba in 1970 (see Kissinger: White House Years) or the stationing of MiG-23s on the island in 1978.* Nor is the brigade plausibly a strike force for an assault on Guatemala or Key West. Nor did it arrive recently enough to be a deliberate, mischievous test of Jimmy Carter's will. Nor does...