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Many of the Republican campaign managers whose candidates trail Reagan have grown increasingly frustrated by Carter's dominance of national attention with his management of the Iran crisis. They feel that whatever chance they have of catching Reagan is being diminished by their own inability to criticize the President and thus to draw attention to themselves. Last week staffers on one campaign even approached Republican National Chairman Bill Brock, urging him to lead the way in breaking G.O.P. silence about Carter and Iran. Brock agreed that all the party's candidates were suffering from Carter's political...
...radioactive clouds rising from Three Mile Island, the flames spitting from the DC-10 that lost an engine over Chicago, the poisons seeping into the Love Canal. The frustrations of economic theory were revealed by the inability of the disciples of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose market-manipulating philosophies have dominated policymaking since the 1950s and 1960s, to deal with the stagflation realities of laggard growth, runaway prices and receding productivity in the post-industrial...
...called frontline states (Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania and Botswana), whose support is crucial to the guerrillas, were given much of the credit for breaking the deadlock. Anxious for an end to the costly struggle, their leaders had been instrumental ever since they helped bring the Front to the conference table last September. With strong diplomatic encouragement from Whitehall and Washington, the frontline Presidents had sent a senior representative to London to tell the guerrilla leaders-particularly the recalcitrant Mugabe-that they must settle with the British. That arm twisting, and the additional assembly points, did the trick...
...Islamic revolution in Iran has sent out shock waves of confusion and distress throughout the monarchies of the Middle East. A state of jitters prevails in the Arabian peninsula, whose petroleum exports are vital to the security of the U.S. and its allies. The rulers of Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter of all, are reported to be frightened; a new set of security regulations is in force throughout the country. The governments of the tiny states of the Persian Gulf are also worried, about both their Shi'ite and Palestinian populations and about the wave of Islamic fundamentalism...
DIED. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 84, Roman Catholic prelate whose compelling sermons were heard by millions of Americans on evening radio in the 1930s and '40s and on national prime-time television in the '50s; of heart disease; in New York City...