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...give him proper deference. He also resented Carter's campaign attacks on Congress. So when the President's nomination of former Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen as CIA director ran into trouble, Byrd sounded no warning. Says a junior Democratic Senator: "He just wanted to teach Carter a lesson." Sorensen withdrew under pressure. That lesson was followed by others, as Byrd repeatedly criticized Carter's legislative liaison staff as bumbling, finally declaring of the President last June: "He's in over his head...
...exchanging jokes and embraces with enthusiasm. Their meeting took place in a rundown airport-terminal building, spruced up with new rugs and posh furniture. Also on hand to greet Carter was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was visiting Sadat. After a ten-minute meeting with Carter, Schmidt discreetly withdrew; less discreet were West German officials in Bonn who unreasonably complained about the failure of Carter to spend more time with the Chancellor...
...imminent and that society would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical leaders, for example, did little to support civil rights legislation in the 1960s...
When the Marines withdrew in 1933, they left behind a "non-partisan constabulary force" of local recruits organized, trained and supplied by the U.S. Because of his facility in the English language, Anastasio Somoza, an ambitious Nicaraguan officer, was designated to command this National Guard. One of Somoza's first actions was to order the execution of Sandino, who naively believed his struggle was at an end. With this action Somoza cleared the way for his own political ascension, based on the military force and diplomatic support granted to him by the U.S. Somoza I--there are several in this...
...film the voyage from beginning to end. He has engaged a nine-man crew that includes an American, a Russian, an Italian, a Mexican, a Japanese, a German, two Scandinavians and an Iraqi (three Indian dhow skippers, hired to help navigate through some difficult waters on the route, withdrew from the expedition when they got a look at the craft...