Carter adopts cautious realism as inauguration nears
As President-elect Carter nears office, he signals measured diplomacy over rushed policy. He sends Mondale to Japan and NATO nations, previews a careful team at the State Department led by Cyrus Vance, Warren Christopher, and Lucy Benson, and notes Brezhnev’s potential for a summit on arms talks while urging patient preparation.
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Jimmy Carter
Europe
Mondale
Japan
NATO
White House
Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
State Department
Cyrus R. Vance
Department
Washington
Army
Defense
Lyndon Johnson
Vance
Senate
Warren M. Christopher
Los Angeles
Johnson
Lucy M. Benson
Massachusetts
League of Women Voters
Militant Slogans in Steelworkers Race Highlighted
In an interview in Lansing former Gov. Frank Murphy recalls a Lewis portrait as Frances Perkins warns of him. The piece discusses Ed Sadlowski’s bid to head the United Steelworkers, contrasts historic Steelworkers leadership with past radicalism, and notes the Feb. 8 referendum against Lloyd McBride.
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Frank Murphy
Michigan
Lansing
CIO
John L. Lewis
Murphy
Franklin Roosevelt
Labor
Frances Perkins
Lewis
Jimmy Carter
F. Ray Marshall
Ed Sadlowski
Mills
South
Chicago
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers Union
Sadlowski
Radical
United Steelworkers
AFL
Steelworkers Union
Scanlon
Phil Murray
Steelworkers
Lloyd McBride
Promises Not Commitments Seen As Goals for 1980s
The piece argues promises are goals to strive for not strict commitments as the inauguration nears. It notes Mondale’s rising influence, the White House office plan, and compares Wallace’s voice to later political dynamics, while questioning peace versus Cold War rhetoric and budget-cut talk.
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Washington
Peanut
Veep Mondale
White House
Ray Earned Prison Commuter Title in 1949
James Earl Ray earned the nickname the commuter for a life spent in and out of prison. In 1949 he robbed two supermarkets, using a bright straw hat like a signature, and escaped with $2,000 as a deaf accomplice distracted staff. A chase followed, ending when a getaway car crashed into a barn and led to recovery of revolvers and cash.
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James Earl Ray
Fellas
Ray
Smiler
Ray Dooley
Alton
Illinois
Keystone Kops
Leavenworth
Hazel Meyer
Ray Culis
Miss Meyer
Culis
Owens
Robert Culis
Missouri
James Earl Ray and James Owens Robo Kroger Heist
The Smiler and James Owens planned a two man Kroger robbery in St Louis. They attempted to grab cash with public safety items and escaped in two cars after a brief chase. James Earl Ray confessed after a short pursuit and drew a 20 year sentence.
Quotations on War and Old Age From Hemingway and Seneca
The lines contrast wartime sacrifice with modern war’s brutality and reflect on aging. Hemingway says dying for country is not sweet or fitting in war. Seneca laments an old man having nothing to show but his years, stressing a life’s lack of proof.
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Truman
Henry Wallace
America
Wallace
Pinkos
Progressive Party
Jerry Ford
Ernest Hemingway
Seneca
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Shepler
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
DIAL
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
AP News
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God
Brezhnev
Mr. Carter
Copiey Editorial Service
Dunagin
MR. Wimble
U.S. Steel Corporation
Clint Golden
John Chamberlain
King Features Syndicate
Golden
Harold Ruttenberg
Joe Scanlon
Pittsburgh
Lee Pressman
Pressman
Ruttenberg
Commie
Walter Reuther
Cyrus Eaton
Portsmouth
Ohio
Tom
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Walter Mondale
Henry Agard Wallace
Board of Economic Warfare
FDR
Harry Truman
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Pentagon
Jim Bishop
James Ear Ray
Kroger
Ohio St
St. Louis
James Owens
Donald Shaefer
Shaefer
P.a
Ralph King
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