European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july new York not six with silo is term of president Carter enjoys Santu general approval from the Arneri Cari people but there has been a marked decline in Public Confidence that he can achieve such tangible targets   unemployment or Balano Init Federal a nationwide Telephone Survey ducted by the new York times and lbs news indicates in spite of Carters Teiji Lalive initiatives in recent to still wins greater Envor from the Public for the style of his presidency than for the sub stance of his hut the consisting of inter views conducted from 20 to also snows that on such delicate issues As Feder the Neutron bomb or Public reactions to the outspokenness of United nations ambassador Andrew rising Carter has accurately read the a hurts mood and fashioned own positions in with prevailing Korea troop withdrawals Lull on lie question a troop withdrawals from South the president is Buck ing Public opinion acid his ability to carry popular support on any Jehlen of economic Aid to Vietnam something demanded by Hanoi us part of the process of reconciliation depends on a tidier Carter offers humanitarian Aid such As food and inc i Fine or nut right Loans and like such profit lessors As presidents Johnson or Carter enjoys a Strong approval ruling on his Overall per Fiir Mancu is per or practically As High u figure is m his first two weeks in such approval Ren Iain High for Ull new presidents during if nut of their first year in just Over 60 per cent of the Public expects that the Fortner Tavernor if Georgia will be Able to restore Trust in the Federal government the same High level of expectations thut existed on the eve of his evidently a reflection of the  such bus turns As appear ances Al town a clinics in mass Lite sprint and in which he visited Tost Bluck support the Only perceptible decline in callers Overill pull clarity has Tome among surveys show that whereas 93 per cent of the Black Community approved of his per for Munch three months hat has to 69 per cent in july still a better margin than among the president retains support All across the ideological especially among although the Public perceives him to be More conservative As Pri Sidun than he was As a it is m dealing with specific issues that Carter rates less favourably with the Public than just after he unveiled his Energy in close in so per cent of the Public believed dial he would be Able la bundle Energy problems but after weeks of White House haggling with Congress Over Energy Carter now gets less 1 imn a 40 per cent vote of con Firnie on that Kyen More striking is the shift in the Public estimate of inv Orcsi dunes ability to reduce unemployment to any real Al the time he took with a Lup wide unemployment at per Mure half of the Public thought he Cirild bring Abnusi a significant reduction in unemployment with the jobless at 7 Only 37 per cent Public thinks tic can nuke a major Dent in this v lit m per cent of the Public expected him to be Able to balance the Federal budget by the end Pfahls four year but despite cuts in the defense department budget and a decision not to produce the by bomber As Well As repeated while House assertions about bal g the budget the Public More Only per cent expect Carter to re this there have been though Gen declines in Public Confidence that the president can control inflation or Stream line the government and make it More Effi though in some costs this trend May represent no More than a Normal shift in Public expectations As a new chief executive begins tackling practical one reason that this scepticism does not seem to have tarnished Carters Overall standing with the Public is the fact that def Royal sep Fecisin Nib Fadrick budget i h t j i of the Ite  optimism end Lent in pessimism now about out of work and actively Job Hunting paint to lot the  Ming  l possibly because of efforts to bolster the Economy with Public works programs Lair  proportion of those Tio think the Economy is improving has risen from is to 22 per proportion who think it is gelling Ftorski has fallen from 27 to 22 per this has benefited Carter like most incumbents of the White the president popular among those who Sec the Economy the upswing and least popular among those whose economic Outlook is per cent of approves of the Way he is dealing with the even those whose families have actually been touched by unemployment during the Post year Are inclined to give Carter the Benefit of the surprisingly Large 31 per thai some Carbert sesame general  rom keep no her foot in Cornelia Wile of Alabama George gets to some water skiing Al Cypress gardens while vacationing in Central in the Early 1960s she waa a professional water ski up1 Garter aspires to hire More Blacks and women Washington Lull president Carter has ordered his staff to Monitor the hiring of Blacks and women for appointive posts in his it was reported thursday the Washington quoting administration said Carter signed a memorandum wednesday instructing department Heads to Send the White House personnel Fulke inter nutation on the racial and sexual makeup of their top aides the Star said the Carter memo dealt with some Federal posts that Are filled the sources told the Star that Carters memo renewed his support of efforts to re Cruit More Blacks and women for High fed eral posts the new administration has been criticized by some for hiring fewer Blacks and women that Carter had pro posed during his Public attitudes Well on spec Joc although he touched off among High Omen of Iclal within he own adm Nuralon and among  comments on abortion Ata news con Ference earlier this he seems to have reflected the prevailing Public Senu ment when he said his administration favored supporting the use of contraceptives and other Lealih aids to women but he of federally financed abortions except time subs news close to two thirds of those interviewed1 said they favored government Aid to women to pay us Cost of contraceptives or to for Nelly Bills hut Only 38per cent favored fed eral Aid for 55 per cent opposed such there was no significant difference of opinion on the abortion Issue bet Ween men and women politically astute according to the poll Carter has also been politically astute in reacting coolly to the ambassador Youngs statements and to the debate on Ihu ecu Iron which is actually a new radiation warhead for conventional Artil Lery pieces and Short Range the poll shows Only about on third of the american people have heard of the ecu Iron bomb Issue and those Are split evenly on the whereas the great majority was much the same is True of reactions to the controversy about Youngs outspoken com ments on or cuban involvement in about 60 per cent had not heard of the Issue or had no firm and the others were evenly although Blacks supported Young by belter than z to i and Whites were critical of him by about 3 lol among the Public at Carter encounters the same kind of opposition he has found in Congress to his plans to with draw american ground forces from South the majority favor the status quo s2 per cent assessing that it is in the National interest to keep ground troops in South against m per cent who favor withdrawal and 14 per cent who have no firm divided opinion that margin in favor of keeping forces on the korean Peninsula was Only slightly less than the 58 per cent majority which favors keeping american ground troops in Western on the Issue of Aid to Public opinion divided depending on the kind of Aid Hal Carter might decide to pro seventy per cent were opposed to outright financial Aid and Only a slight plurality of to per cent favored Industrial or farm but fully two thirds sup ported providing food or Medicine to the Hanoi which has been seek ing Aid As a concomitant to reopening diplomatic relation after toe Vietnam thus the Carter administration has nol stated a Clear oui position on the Viet Nam although it has shied away d by majorities to first soviet Shook up foreign policy Washington i api a secret government memorandum drafted after Russia exploded its first atom dumb set the stage for a reshaping of american for eign policy based on the conclusion that Moscow mortally challenged the according to a new cold War the known As nsc68 and adopted with Only limited also led to a military buildup and provided the rationalization fur development of the Hydrogen the new Book Daniel Yergin in his shattered peace the origins of the cold War and the National Security says the memo Randum concluded that the soviet unions fundamental design necessitated the destruction of the the paper was prepared during the administration of president Harry Truman in 1950 by a group headed by Paul then director of the slate departments policy planning Yergin says the Only significant disagreement with the conclusions of the paper came from George Kennan and Charles the state Ift part meals two principal experts on the soviet a research fellow at Harvard quotes the paper As the soviet unlike previous Aspi rants to is animated by a new fanatic antithetical to our and As saying