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That evening, Carter took a break to watch the caucus results from Iowa on TV. At 9:30 p.m., Appointments Secretary Phillip Wise phoned to congratulate Carter on his overwhelming victory. The President and his wife were ecstatic. Said an aide: "You could practically hear him grinning from ear to ear." Rosalynn was even more emotional. Said another staffer: "She was so excited that she was just flying." Next morning, Carter greeted a top adviser with "the biggest smile that I've seen in a long time," but he quickly got back to the speech. When another aide raised...
...should not speak about that; it could seem conceited and politically not wise. But on many issues we agree. I think that the Soviet Union would be very much interested in stopping the arms race. The Soviet Union would gain a lot if it did not have to spend what it does on armaments because it needs that money very badly to improve the living standards of the people. But you Americans also need that money for social expenses, for education, for assistance to the unemployed. I don't think it makes sense to throw away $150 billion...
...just didn't shoot well," McLanghlin said after the game, seeming somewhat frustrated with the glaring weakness in the Harvard attack. "Shooting is the key to our game, and we're just in a real slump shooting-wise right...
Most of America's allies had doubts that the proposed embargo would end the eleven-week-old hostage crisis. They also wondered if the U.S. was wise to go ahead with it in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That...
...Benatar, 27, was born, like Shipley, in Brooklyn, and there is a lot of New York in their voices and their wise, wily, wounded attitudes. But if Shipley evokes various girl groups, Benatar sounds like all of them packed tight into one. She can put a lot of sass into a song like I Need a Lover ("Who won't drive me crazy"). Benatar's teen-age studies as a coloratura soprano have taught her, she says, "a lot of technique and stamina - I can scream without hurting myself...