Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idealist, Carter tends to think that if a policy is right, it will somehow prevail. A proper moral stance, he seems to believe, is at least half the battle. He thus remains relatively indifferent to strategy, to making sure that all the pieces are in place and all the proper personalities consulted, that all the predictable consequences of an action indeed have been predicted. He tends to react rather than anticipate, to race from one crisis to the next, always hoping for the best. He often fails to see how one event is related to another in a binding chain...
...would seem, does anyone else. Given the right combination of events and a little bit of luck, any number of pairings is still conceivable. To be sure, President Carter remained the heavy betting choice among the Democrats, but in Massachusetts Ted Kennedy defeated him by 65% to 29%-a wider margin than the Senator had expected in his native state. That victory was dimmed by his 3-to-l loss to Carter in neighboring Vermont in a "beauty contest" primary that left the actual selection of delegates to party caucuses. Nonetheless, Kennedy's sagging candidacy was buoyed in another...
...experience earns $35,000, a Foreign Service recruit $16,000, a career ambassador $50,000. According to the American Foreign Service Association (A.F.S.A.), the gentlemanly union that represents the interests of U.S. diplomats, this salary scale is about 10% lower than that of the Federal Civil Service. To be sure, like other American Government employees abroad, diplomats also receive a housing allowance, a cost-of-living provision and access at some posts to certain duty-free goods, such as liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. But high prices and the sinking dollar have wiped out these advantages, leaving the diplomats with little...
...hostess in some overseas post. Says an American officer in the Middle East: "Twenty years ago, a wife loyally followed her husband around the world. Today she argues, 'Why should I give up my $30,000-a-year job to go Live in Upper Volta?' " To be sure, the State Department and individual embassies have relaxed the rules by allowing diplomats' wives to work at secretarial and "family liaison" jobs in the missions; obviously, this kind of employment does not appeal to a woman with a career of her own. An embassy wife in Tokyo says flatly...
...removed." In Washington, the White House and the State Department remained uncomfortably silent, as if they feared that the slightest American enthusiasm could wreck the deal. They were weary from reacting to all the contradictory stop-and-go signals that have characterized the crisis and were waiting for a sure sign of progress. They were also fairly certain that Banisadr, who is believed to be anxious to get the matter settled once and for all, would be unlikely to free the hostages until Iranian public opinion had been prepared for so dramatic a move...