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Besides, Administration officials figured, the strong talk might lay the groundwork on Capitol Hill for winning congressional approval of greater U.S. aid to friendly governments in Africa. In addition, the White House thought a firmer approach to Moscow might improve chances for Senate ratification of a new SALT treaty. Of course, by heightening American suspicion of the Soviets, this strategy might have the reverse effect...
...India, which he smells, sees and hears. His wife is closer to him, but less independently visible than back in the campaign. He is less the preacher and more the educator. His speeches have become more substantive, detailing policy, not promises. He is at once more flexible and firmer. He can knock back a couple of bourbons at night with a man he likes. Ruefully he has admitted to himself that Georgetown gossip can affect his leadership. He is developing personal intuition about individual congressional leaders like Danny Rostenkowski, whose virtuosity is that he can count votes...
...messages to Congress and in his budget, Jimmy Carter has just set forth his economic policy for 1978. He hopes that it will prove to the country that his grasp of fiscal reality is firmer than it sometimes appears. Says Senior Editor George Church, who wrote this week's cover story: "Carter's severe problem is that he has convinced most of the business community that he doesn't know what he's doing...
Begin probably has a firmer hold on Israel than any leader since his old antagonist, David Ben-Gurion, and it is this very strength that helped make Sadat's peace initiative possible. A close Begin aide confides: "The Premier believes that Jewish history [in Israeli stopped in 1963 when Ben-Gurion retired and only started again this year with his election to the premiership." With the backing of the 15 Deputies from Yigael Yadin's Democratic Movement for Change, who joined the government in October, Begin's ruling coalition now commands a healthy 78 votes...
...result was a personal victory for John Vorster. He had called the election and dominated the campaign, capitalizing on the U.N.'s new mandatory arms embargo against South Africa and other recent signs that both Britain and the U.S. had decided to take a firmer line with Pretoria from now on. South Africans joked that Vorster and his party had run against President Jimmy Carter-and had won big. As they had always done before, the Afrikaners united in a time of crisis. And this time, they brought record numbers of English-speaking whites along with them...