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Indeed, Nixon was so fully in command as the showdown session on Watergate approached that Frost's producer, John Birt, walked up to the partygoing interviewer before Frost's own birthday bash in Los Angeles and declared, "David, I don't think you're up to this." His assessment galvanized Frost. In the days that followed, Frost pored over his briefing books and endured hours of sessions in which a staffer attempted to answer each Frost question the way Nixon might. With his homework properly done, Frost proved that he was indeed a formidable adversary for Nixon. The British charmer...
...showdown comes in a tranquil setting?a large, split-level seaside house in Monarch Bay, some ten miles north of San Clemente. The principals sit in beige easy chairs in front of two large bookcases brought into the living room specially as backdrops for the show. (The books are mostly historical reference works, selected to establish an atmosphere in which Nixon would be comfortable.) Frost is seated to favor his best profile. Heavy curtains obscure the rugged coast and the sunny Pacific. Nixon looks a bit older than in his White House days but surprisingly strong and tanned?a daily...
Such hard Israeli attitudes heighten the threat of conflict. But with Israel fully rearmed by the U.S. since the '73 war and the Arabs indifferently resupplied by Moscow, the Arab "confrontation states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road...
...against Harvard, for even this year's young boat has gelled quickly, outdueling Syracuse in a stretch sprint and breezing over Brown in a confidence-builder last weekend. The outcome of this race will indicate what Harvard faces in a coming showdown with Penn and at the Eastern sprints...
...showdown on energy policy that he has sought so deliberately may not be the last of these tests of Carter. But it could be if, through arrogance or ineptitude, he fails to perceive his own delicate position. His Administration has been fragmented in the first three months. Pondering the White House, an important Congressman declared that he got no clear sense of determination and direction, "whether one agrees with the President...