Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resumes his travels with a flight to St. Paul, where he will board Delta Queen, an old stern-wheeler that will take him and 188 other tourists on a week-long trip down the Mississippi River. At each stop the President plans to repeat his energy lesson. After the boat docks at St. Louis, he will head east for a few days' vacation in Plains, Ga., and Camp David. Carter acknowledges that a possible presidential rival, Senator Howard Baker, gave him the idea for the trip. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Since Baker made several suggestions recently...
...emigration of Viet Nam's ethnic Chinese would continue, he said, but in a more "orderly" way. In fact, the exodus of the boat people, which totaled some 110,-000 during May and June alone, has all but stopped since July as a result of Hanoi's efforts to slow the flow. Indeed, Hanoi boasts that since June, it has prosecuted 4,000 people for running rackets to smuggle people out of the country...
...Petroleum Executive Miles Lerman, a survivor of Nazi slave labor camps in Russia, agreed. "There is no way to measure what the Germans did against the helpless. Still you can't allow it to kill your own life. You must go on. And speak out: about Africa, the boat people, anyone in trouble...
...named co-chairperson of a humans' charity committee? It seems that the Marine Corps Reserve, launching its 32nd Toys for Tots campaign to provide Christmas gifts for underprivileged children, thought that dressing Benji in a space suit might lure more contributions. Television's Love Boat captain, Gavin MacLeod, agreed to be Benji's co-chairperson, ignoring the vaudeville maxim, never follow a dog act. "Listen," said MacLeod, "he's a better partner than a lot of two-legged dogs I've worked with...
...slowdown has been applauded mainly by Southeast Asian states that have had to house a refugee population that now totals 380,000. Indeed, most of the boat people rescued by the Seventh Fleet and ships of other countries in the past two weeks had not come directly from Viet Nam; they had previously landed safely in Malaysia, only to be towed out to sea again by the Malaysian navy. As for the refugees already in camps, their plight has not improved much, despite the promises of the Geneva participants to provide $190 million in additional aid. In fact, bureaucratic delays...