Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mail has poured into the Carter transition headquarters by the bushel -more than 5,000 pieces in the first week. The Carter staff announced that the call had yielded over 300 "constructive" suggestions. A sampler...
Puerto Rico's new Governor-elect, Carlos Romero Barceló, was startled to be summoned from a luncheon table in San Juan on the last day of the year by an urgent telephone call from the White House. The message: within an hour, President Gerald Ford would propose that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico become the U.S.'s 51st state...
...forces are reported to be using flame throwers and bulldozers to raze the villages in a 1.6-mile-wide cordon sanitaire being carved out along the 800-mile border between Angola and Namibia. Nowadays the Angolan refugees who manage to get across this "Castro Corridor," as the South Africans call it, are all women and small children; they say that in the border region all males over ten, considered potential military age in Angola, are being summarily shot, lest they become UNITA recruits. The atrocities may be strengthening support for UNITA. Says one refugee cattle herder: "After what Neto...
...come - were to be even newer than visitors to the 1876 exposition could imagine. These came not from bigness but from a new kind of community. New ties would bind Americans together, would bind Americans to the larger world and would bind the world to America. I call this community the Republic of Technology...
...Abel-McBride forces charge Sadlowski with radicalism. McBride is careful not to call Sadlowski a Communist. "I don't really know whether he is or isn't a Communist," McBride said at a Pittsburgh rally last week. "But I do know he's in bed with left-wingers...