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...from their flimsy camp shacks near Winter Garden by county officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that the federal funds will go mostly to pickers in the form of unemployment...
...least a dozen states, including virtually all those in Georgia, were closed for varying lengths of time. The longest period was in Dayton, which planned a month-long shutdown. Energy emergencies were declared in Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the city of Milwaukee. Florida's Governor Reubin Askew proclaimed his state a disaster area because of damage to citrus crops. Maryland's Governor Marvin Mandel sought the same designation: 1,500 Chesapeake Bay watermen were frozen out of their oyster beds and fishing areas by layers of ice up to 3 ft. thick...
...Moynihan-with his long forelock that seems forever (and designedly) askew, his cherubic face, well-upholstered 6 ft. 4 in. frame and congenital inability to resist controversy-he can be counted upon to enliven the Senate with rhetorical flourishes worthy of such famous orators as Daniel Webster or even Everett Dirksen...
...view of Florida's Democratic Governor Reubin Askew, 48, politicians have brought the crisis of confidence on themselves. Said he: "People feel that they have been betrayed-and they have; they feel they have been lied to-and they have; they feel they have been cheated-and again, they have...
...office needs to get only about one-quarter of the white vote to win if he or she receives a solid black vote. One of the great significant changes has been the Southern blacks who have been voting nearly 100 per cent for liberals like Jimmy Carter, Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Gov. Cliff Finch of Mississippi. Southern Democrats now often look on a coalition of poor and working class whites and blacks as the central constituency of their party. Uncomfortable with the "New South" Democrats, the corporate establishment in most of the region...