THE WEEK.

UNITED States politics & government; MUSKIE, Edmund S., 1914-1996; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; MAGNUSON, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989; GROMYKO, Andrei Andreevich, 1909-1989; FOREIGN relations of the United States; INTERNATIONAL relations; CARTER, Jimmy, 1924-

The article presents updates on politics in the U.S. as of May 1980. Senator Edmund Muskie resigned as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to become the secretary of state. Senator Warren Magnuson is not interested to the vacated position. Meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko expressed moral indignation over the U.S. violation of the Iranian territorial integrity. In the meantime, President Jimmy Carter would have been retired as chief executive by an overwhelming vote of no-confidence.