Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passionately supports. At one visit to a United Nations project, he saw a map showing that the danger of arable land turning into desert is greater in California than in Kenya. He stuffed the map into his pocket and later remarked: "I had to come all the way to Africa in order to make the point that we can't go on living like this, using up our resources...
...further reason for the journey was given by Jacques Barzaghi, a Brown aide: "Jerry has some friends, Jesse Jackson and people like that, who urged him to come to Africa to see for himself and get a little insight into American blacks. You might say that it's also a vacation, except that Jerry does the same thing on vacation that he does in his Sacramento office...
...crisis with South Africa and Pakistan over nuclear weapons
...their own. Persuading them not to do this has become a desperate diplomatic crusade of the Carter Administration. Washington's opposition to expanding the nuclear club is often at odds with other vital U.S. objectives and subjects the White House to charges of fumbling or incompetence. South Africa and Pakistan last week be came cases in point...
...toughly worded statement read on prime-time television in South Africa, Prime Minister P.W. Botha announced the expulsion of several members of the American mission in Pretoria for "aerial espionage." A grim-faced Botha told South Africans that a twin-engine Beechcraft turboprop used by U.S. Am bassador William B. Edmondson had been "converted for use as a spy plane by the installation of an aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some...