Word: mid-term
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...anticipated January summit will not come a moment too soon for Carter. Last week, talking with nine newly elected Senators, he described SALT tersely as "the most important single foreign policy question" of his Administration. A SALT II failure, he warned, would be "disastrous." At the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis, Carter promised that SALT II would require the Soviets "to destroy several hundred of their existing missiles." Brezhnev also dwelt on the topic last week, calling for a pact "without further procrastination...
Some labor officials, by contrast, regard the Administration's economy drive with resignation, especially in view of the economizing message that the voters sent to Washington in the mid-term election. Says a top labor official in Washington: "We don't like what we hear, but there's not much we can do about it. I think that the expression we will be hearing the most on the Hill will be: 'I don't dare take a chance. Look at what happened to Dick Clark.' " A liberal Senator from Iowa, Clark went down to unexpected defeat at the hands...
...down?his current term runs until 1979, when he will be 85?his successor is just about certain to be AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland, 56. Kirkland has a reputation as both an intellectual and a pragmatist. He vows that labor's political support in this fall's mid-term elections will be determined by how legislators voted on the labor-reform bill, rather than going blindly to Democrats. For example, in Illinois the AFL-CIO for the first time will aid the re-election campaign of Republican Senator Charles Percy, who voted to end a filibuster against...
...come familiar as the local grocer's. What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...
...noteworthy lapses of judgment, especially about people. His intense loyalty to his staff makes him reluctant to fire those who may have served him well in his campaign but have demonstrated limited ability at the national level. (No Administration in recent memory has been so close to the mid-term mark with so few significant personnel changes as Carter's has.) Finally, his deep moralism and evangelistic background at times seem to have persuaded him that it is enough to preach the good word or introduce the good program without having to follow through with hard political pressures...