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Personality profiles like this week's cover story on Actress Diane Keaton depend largely on the reporter's ability to establish a rapport with the subject - while maintaining a professional detachment. Too often interviews are nothing more than simple question-and-answer sessions that provide the journalist with little insight into the subject. But occasionally, resonance and understanding develop between the two that add a lot to the story. Such was the case with Diane Keaton and TIME Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro...
...grins. In fact, the committee's verdict on Lance is likely to be mixed. So the possibility remains that Lance, claiming to feel personally vindicated, could yet decide on his own to resign. Whether or not Lance stays, jumps, or is pushed by Carter or the committee will depend on how the President and the Senators view the public reaction to his stirring but often shaky defense...
...were first proposed. The Russians justifiably condemned Carter's initiative then as one-sided. In seeking to curb the Soviets' efforts to turn their stable of intercontinental ballistic missiles into MIRV's (multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles), the President proposed the restriction of a system that the Russians depend on heavily, and the U.S. does not. Our ace in the whole, after all, would appear to be the new cruise missile...
...Carter repair the leaks? That could depend on how swiftly, and skillfully, he moves to cut his losses. At week's end Senate Majority Leader Byrd reiterated the advice that he had offered the President on Tuesday. Lance "should have his say before the committee and then resign," said Byrd. He added: "It is inevitable that he will resign." Carter's reply, delivered while campaigning in New Jersey for Governor Brendan Byrne, was ambiguous. "I respect the opinion of people like Senator Byrd," said the President, "but I agree with him that Bert ought to have a chance to explain...
Eddison says HIID "took quite a beating" during the early '70s as the traditional sources of funding for its projects--the Ford Foundation and the U.N. Development Program--began to dry up. Before, host countries could depend on these funding sources for the HIID programs, but today the institute's clients must fund the projects themselves, often with loans on favorable terms from the World Bank and other international lending institutions...