Vesco Case Secrets Prompt Carter Aides Denial Pattern
Journalist Jack Anderson argues President Carter and his aides used half truths and denials in the Vesco affair. The piece details interactions with Spencer Lee IV and Hamilton Jordan, noting unverified recollections and possible omissions in White House briefings.
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Washington
Carter
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Spencer Lee IV
Albany, Ga
White House
Hamilton Jordan
Richard Harden
Lee
Vesco
Costa Rica
Nassau
Jordan
Harden
Securities and Exchange Commission
Justice Department
Griffin Bell
Spencer Lee
Albany
Bell
Charles Kirbo
Carter aide Warnke resigns as SALT II talks near end
The Carter administration pushes ahead with SALT II while Paul Warnke resigns as chief negotiator and ACDA director. Critics say his soft line toward Moscow blended into the negotiating instructions he helped draft. Senate scrutiny will intensify as the treaty moves toward ratification next year.
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Carter
Senate
Paul C. Warnke
White House
Warnke
Sen
George McGovern
Moscow
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA
Law on Absences Flags Congressional Pay Drawbacks
The 1856 pay raise carried a rider docking members for each day absent with illness as the only excuse. The Foundation for the Study of Presidential and Congressional Terms estimates last year would have yielded over 1.5 million dollars in penalties. Enforced rarely, enforcement was deemed no longer feasible by 1914, yet repeal attempts failed, with a 1975 rejection leaving the law unused.
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Congress
Senate
House
Foundation For the Study
Do Genesis Chapters One and Two Describe One Creation
The letter explains there was a single creation act extended over time, with Genesis 1 summarizing the act and Genesis 2 detailing its aftermath. It argues that Genesis 2 expands Genesis 1 and urges reading Genesis 1 through 11 as a whole to understand beginnings and God’s creation.
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DR. Graham
H.H.F
Cuba in Making and Nicaragua Echoes in Latin Politics
The piece compares 1959 Cuba under Batista and Castro to Nicaragua under Somoza with the Sandinista threat. It warns the Carter administration against pressuring Somoza and urges caution over Sandinista violence funded by Cuba and Panama, arguing a subversive cancer endangers Latin America.
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Nicaragua
Cuba
United States
Fulgencio Batista
Europe
Batista
Hemisphere
Vee
Anastasio “Tachito
Somoza
Costa Rica
Castro
Sandinista Liberation Front
Panama
Latin America
Time For Mansfield To Retire
Tokyo Journal reports waning U S confidence in Japan amid rising economic muscle and a Kobe like bilateral trade tension. The piece portrays Senator Mike Mansfield as aging and less aggressive as ambassador candidates debate U S interests in Asia and Fukuda pace.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
America
U.S
Mike Mansfield
Asia
Mansfield
Senate
Fukuda
Takeo Fukuda
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Rutland Drive
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