Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With those words Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith last week told his countrymen in a grave 20-minute television address that the Rhodesian "rebellion" was at an end. Nearly eleven years after his government had declared its independence from British rule and its determination to maintain white minority rule in the landlocked territory. Smith and his colleagues capitulated. On behalf of their 275,000 white countrymen, they agreed to a British-American plan to transfer power to Rhodesia's 6 million blacks within the next two years. The Western powers, Smith said calmly, "have made up their...
Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter will pay his first post-convention visit to Boston this afternoon, sandwiching a domestic policy address at Boston College between two stops at an East Boston hotel...
After his 1:30 p.m. speech at B.C.'s Roberts Center, Carter will return to the Ramada Inn to address members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. At 4 p.m. he is scheduled to leave for Portland...
...politics of reconciliation often leads him into telling various factions what he thinks will best keep them with him. One critic has labeled him Everyman-the candidate who needs everyone's vote. In the debates, all these factions will be listening together and Carter will have to address them as one constituency...
...politics of race has gone with the wind," proclaimed Georgia's Governor George Busbee in his 1975 inaugural address. But Busbee, who succeeded Carter, had reason to know that he was not entirely right: his opponent in the Democratic primary runoff, Lester Maddox, won 40% of the vote, mostly from diehard segregationists, who, though they no longer elect statewide candidates, hang on as an inhibiting political force...