Word: bla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boyd charged the CIA with staging evidence of canabalism in Angola to discredit the population there, and blamed the Langley, Virginia, CIA computer for "the concoction of alphabet soup groups in this country like the SLA or the BLA to perpetuate CIA manipulation of our citizens...
...Bla-a-ack is the color of my true love's co-o-ffee, White is the lump of su-ugar on her spoooooon...
Meanwhile the Black Lung Association is getting ready for another g?-round, and the outcome is uncertain. The job of making coal mining ??? and healthier has really just begun-even with the help of new federal legislation passed at the-??? of 1969 and the BLA, which ??? things moving in the first place, faces a bigger ??? than ever. Black lung may be at the core of the problem: but the problem is also a state that will not move into the 20th century without radical prodding: a union ??? ??? to its wallet to be counted on for help: a country no longer...
...form the Physicians' Committee for Miners' Health and Safety, and began crisscrossing the coal states drumming up support for reform. The Black Lung Association set its sights on the West Virginia legislature, demanding that black lung be made a compensable disease and that outmoded diagnostic restrictions be discarded. The BLA saw its legislation as a first step in a crusade to force coal companies to treat their employees as human b?ings and to make their mines safe places to work. But the industry, hypocritically accusing the miners of "emotionalism" and "unfair pressure tactics." succeeded in bottling up the legislation...