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...Carter conferred through the week with Washington officialdom, the onetime "Mr. Outsider" noted with a grin: "I'm beginning to feel more like a Washington insider." He was briefed in Plains by CIA Chief George Bush, and met with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Asked what he planned to tell Carter, Kissinger quipped: "I have spent so much time finding Plains on a map, I haven't had much time to think about what I would...
...Ortegas are lucky indeed compared with Pancho, for he belongs to the largest group of immigrants?those whose illegal entry was cut short by U.S. officialdom. While accepting some 400,000 legal immigrants every year, the U.S. seizes and deports about 800,000 illegal immigrants, almost 90% of them Mexican. Yet the wetbacks keep returning, for there is no other border in the world that divides such great disparities in wealth...
...week's end Arizona officialdom at last seemed determined to move on a broad front. More than 900 people, including the Governor, the attorney general, 80 legislators and top business and community leaders signaled their outrage by crowding into the Church of the Beatitudes of the United Church of Christ for Bolles' funeral services. Observed one high-ranking Arizona official: "You cannot have the sort of systematic fraud and swindling that we have without the complicity of some top business and political figures...
...when Harvard officialdom tried to encourage students not to register to vote in Cambridge, first, last spring, when a letter from general counsel Daniel Steiner '54 warned that doing so would subject the newly enfranchised to a multitude of tax liabilities, and then, this fall, when an OCS-OCL newsletter warned pre-meds that it could hurt their chances of getting into home-state med schools, Wylie took on the University...
...only irritant that he and Gayle endure as relatives of the President is the constant presence of Secret Service men; at least two follow him everywhere. But that is the extent of his contact with officialdom. He and Gayle make only rare visits to Washington, although they talk to the President or Mrs. Ford at least once a week by telephone. Mike insists that the family's times together now, though rarer, are somehow more precious for being less frequent. "I've found we've really cherished our time together," he says, "just sitting around talking...