Word: americas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps Ted Kennedy won't solve all of America's problems, but he will make them appear more bearable...
...imports from the U.S., having bought 816,000 metric tons of American wheat in the past fiscal year. In September the Khomeini government signed a contract to double wheat purchases from Australia, to 520,000 metric tons over the next six months. The price is about $20 higher than America's $185 a ton. Meat from Australia and New Zealand, eggs from Turkey and poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran. The country has also been going to Thailand for about 15% of its imported rice, and the Thais have plenty more where that came from. Were...
...Arabia, will probably be more ambivalent: on the one hand, they may hope that the outrage will provoke the U.S. into playing a more assertive role in their region; on the other, they are sure to worry about how credible the U.S. performance will be. Said one prominent Saudi: "America has gotten a reputation for letting down its friends, and that won't be so easy to correct...
...Michael Harrington, a long-time socialist mover and shaker and author of The Other America, rammed home the message: "...corporate power is the most important single cause of our troubles. That is not a frayed, obsolete slogan out of the populist past. As we will see, it is the critical, unprecedented fact of the present and future...
...fragile compact among leaders of disparate organizations who have agreed temporarily to paper over their differences. Though its conference last weekend exhibited DA's continuing slow but steady growth, Democratic Agenda is only a beginning. If the Agenda platform is to provide a launchingpoint for greater economic democracy in America rather than an expedient steppingstone for a business-as-usual Kennedy candidacy, coalition members will have to work on permanently transforming the outlook of the electorate from one of forever seeking a "better" candidate to one of confronting the alleged abuses of corporate power in America and abroad. That...