Carter's Great Purge: Out go five Cabinet members in a shake-up that shocks the country.

The article reports on the mass resignations of the top 34 cabinet members and staff aides of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Cabinet members include Treasury Department Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Transportation Department Secretary Brock Adams, and Attorney General Griffin Bell. It states that Blumenthal will be replaced by Federal Reserve Board chairman G. William Miller. It mentions that W. Graham Claytor Jr., president of the Southern Railway Co., will temporarily fill Adam's position and Bell proposed Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti to replace him. It notes the impact of the president's move on the country's economic stability, the understanding the president's leadership ability, and the price uncertainties in the international financial markets.