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Old Ally, New Competitor
Now, when South Korea's economic success is costing the jobs of Americans, South Koreans wonder if we would fight for them again
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Liberia
Liberians are still waiting to see whether their lot will improve under Master Sergeant Doe
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How Jimmy Carter Does It
Nice guys may finish last, but a sweet-talking candidate for President finished first in a key Democratic presidential primary this spring, knocking most of the original contenders out of the race. The Atlantic's Washington editor followed Jimmy Carter's march through Pennsylvania, and witnessed a new kind of love story, as well as portents of trouble.
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Bettmann / Getty The Man Who Runs the Senate
Robert Byrd, a little-known, fiddle-playing West Virginian, is the Senate’s Democratic whip, probably its next majority leader, and just possibly a favorite son at the 1976 Democratic Convention. Says he: “I believe that a big man can make a small job important.” Some of his colleagues think Byrd also proves the converse: that big job can help a small man to grow.
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AP The Pentagon Papers Trial
“Inevitably political, the Pentagon Papers case is a decisive test of the federal government's capacity to control the disclosure of information stamped 'secret,' of an individual's right to defy the security classification system, and at least peripherally, of the press's ability to rely on 'leaks' in government circles.”
