Word: problems
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...immediate White House problem turned out to be finding Muskie to ask him to take the job. The Senator was on his way to Nashville to deliver a speech to the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies. Eventually the President located him in Nashville on Sunday and asked him to become Secretary of State. "You really like to deal in blockbusters, Mr. President," said Muskie. Replied Carter: "You're my first choice, and the only one I've talked...
Muskie's immediate and overriding problem will be to work out a modus vivendi with Brzezinski that fully establishes the Secretary of State's position. It will not be an easy task. The National Security Adviser is a man of strong views directly put. Brzezinski likes to say, "In life you must take risks," and he shapes his policy thoughts accordingly. His favorite historical figure is Napoleon. He often quotes a phrase he attributes to the Emperor: "On s'engage et puis on voit" (roughly, "You act and then you see"). A less favored and not yet historical figure...
From almost every corner last week, Ed Muskie was warned about the problem that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, would create for him. If it wasn't Brzezinski himself, it was that damnable job that kept getting in the way of Secretaries of State. Unless, of course, like Kissinger, one controlled both jobs...
...problem, according to minority student members of the committee, is that whites perceive separatism when minority students gather together in groups. As one white student told the committee at an open meeting in 1977, "Whites interpret Black tables and Blacks sitting together as a sign of their antagonism, but they never question the whites all sitting together." Eugene Matthews '80, one of the committee members, said this week the report shows that "perceptions are a large part of the problem." Students who share interests sit together, Matthews said...
Florence Houn '80, former president of the Asian American Association, supported Matthew's views. A member of a group advocating the establishment of a campus Third World Center, Houn said white students might perceive the center as threatening. But the real problem is ignorance, she added. "People don't understand Third World people, culture and heritage so they're afraid of Third World people getting together," Houn said...