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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despite his admirable efforts in the Middle East, on the Panama Canal, in the SALT negotiations, in human rights, Carter has not been able to find within himself the passion, the spiritual heat, to inspire. He still gazes out upon his fractious and occasionally ungovernable countrymen with wondering ice-blue eyes too often predisposed to see the small picture...
...creative, careful use of its endowment. Many believe that a new generation of leaders is now working at the next "clarifying idea." Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer: "Conditions are building that will revitalize leadership. People are not willing to live endlessly with ambiguity. There is something within us that is violated by feeling that we are adrift...
...made a career switch from the business world, where he was a $100,000-a-year senior vice president of the Commercial Credit Co., to the Federal Government. He took a $60,000 salary cut in 1973 to become an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Within a year, he was head of the Federal Energy Office, forerunner of the Department of Energy...
Nonetheless, within 24 hours Israel defiantly struck north into Lebanon again, this time with a ground assault that blew up a house suspected of harboring Palestinian terrorists in the frontier village of Majdal Silm...
Western intelligence circles had some other suspicions about whodunit. One theory involved a possible Egyptian vendetta for the recent Palestinian guerrilla seizure of the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, which Mohsen is said to have directed. Another was that he was the victim of a plot within the P.L.O., where Mohsen had numerous enemies because of his Syrian connection...