Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cash's sister-in-law asking if he would sing at a Brumley benefit. "She said she didn't think so," Woods reports. Debbie Maretz has written President Carter, and letters have gone to Senator John Warner, who came out against the APCO project during the fall campaign. After the serious business is disposed of, Roby Taylor, a wizened man in blue coveralls, begins showing around color pictures of his twelve-foot tomato vine. "I reckon you never seen anything like it," he says with a great grin...
...arrived there than President José LÓpez Portillo welcomed him with a public scolding. In the midst of all this, Carter learned that two Persian Gulf sheikdoms were taking advantage of the Iranian crisis to raise their oil prices 7%, a blow to his antinflation campaign...
...cracking heads within his own foreign policy team to get an agreement on the final set of tradeoffs to be offered Moscow. Second, he must convince the Soviets that unless they make some concessions, SALT II could fall victim to what may well be a wide-open 1980 presidential campaign...
Massachusetts thus followed five other states−Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Montana−in deciding that lowering the legal drinking age to 18 had been a mistake. Indeed, one of King's most effective issues during his campaign last year was teen-age drinking. His primary opponent, Incumbent Michael Dukakis, had twice vetoed bills to raise the legal drinking age and promised to do so again, despite polls showing that 74% of the state's voters favored raising...
Another perplexing problem was the growing tension between the military forces loyal to Khomeini and the leftist fedayeen. The former, who probably number between 10,000 and 15,000 throughout the country, are devout Shi'ite Muslims. For several years the mojahedeen conducted a terrorist campaign aimed at, among others, American businessmen and military officers based in Iran. But last week they were among those most willing to obey Khomeini's order to lay down their arms...