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During his vacation Carter studied the thick volumes of transition papers that his staff had prepared before he won the election. His only substantive announcement concerned leadership of his 100-member transition staff, which will work out of an unimpressive set of offices in Washington's HEW North Building. In choosing the team, Carter apparently was trying to bridge a split between the transition planners, headed by the ambitious, efficient Jack Watson, and the campaign staff, directed by the more volatile Hamilton Jordan. One of Jordan's former deputies, Barbara Blum, will become Watson's deputy; Landon...
...about the Carter era. Notes Paul Delisle, maître d' of what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
...fight through thick and thin...
Despite those brave words, every white Rhodesian realizes that "fighting through thick and thin" may become a savage reality if the Geneva Conference on Rhodesia remains stalemated-which it has been since it convened at the end of October. All that seems to be keeping the conference alive is a reluctance by Smith and Rhodesia's four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-to bear the blame for torpedoing Rhodesia's last real hope of avoiding a bloody civil...
When the somber young prince with the wistful eyes behind thick spectacles ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne, Japan was a rising Pacific power that worshiped both the Emperor's divinity and the potentials of military strength in a world sick of war and attempting unsuccessfully to disarm. That was on Christmas Day, 1926. Last week, with three rousing shouts of "Banzai!" followed by a loud brass fanfare, government and diplomatic notables marked the 50th anniversary of Emperor Hirohito's accession...