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...numbers are less important than the individual changes. The President lost five key liberal supporters in the Senate: Clark of Iowa, Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, William Hathaway of Maine, Floyd Haskell of Colorado, Wendell Anderson of Minnesota. As head of the African Affairs Subcommittee, Clark was a strong backer of the Administration's policy of pressuring the white powers in southern Africa to grant black majority rule. He was defeated by Conservative...
...dedicate the new facilities of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard hopes it will be inaugurating a new era in the training of American public servants. Harvard will also be honoring Charles W. Engelhard, the man who for two decades served as the United States' largest corporate backer of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Not just any small-time mogul who has run roughshod over the political and economic rights of 18 million people, but the very epitome of U.S. corporate complicity in apartheid. It is a situation that demonstrates philanthropy at its self-serving worst...
...anticipation of Proposition 13, is "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania, a rival power. (Chico also enjoys a brief stint as a Public Nusiance in Groucho's cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into a revival meeting ("I got guns, you got guns, all God's chillun got guns."), and the famous mirror sequence. Serious critics have tried to treat the film...
Ostensibly, the reason for the takeover was that Lonrho had been evading the United Nations' economic sanctions against Rhodesia (which black African leaders refer to as Zimbabwe). In fact, the move was an irritated response by Nyerere, a prominent backer of the Patriotic Front, to Rowland's ambiguous dealings with both sides in the delicate Rhodesian situation...
Sidestepping these problems, Carter dispatched Vice President Walter Mondale to the U.N. as head of a 72-member U.S. delegation that included Actor Paul Newman, a longtime backer of liberal causes. To nearly everyone's surprise, Mondale delivered a toughly worded speech accusing the Kremlin of mounting "a continuing buildup of unprecedented proportions in Europe." In addition, he attacked the Soviets for deploying the SS-20 missile. Though the Vice President made it plain that "no nation can be asked to reduce its defenses below the threat it faces," he did make one substantive proposal to the disarmament assembly...