Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIKE conducting a battle campaign--you find the grunts, the students in the front lines...then you talk with the sergeants (grad students), then the junior officers (academic advisors). Finally, when I had my basic research in hand, I would go to the general, the president, and ask for an interview...
Jimmy Carter's campaign strategists live with at least one recurring nightmare: the President gets clobbered by a write-in vote for Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire's opening Democratic primary next Feb. 26, and then on the following Tuesday, March 4, he loses badly in Massachusetts to some popular Bay State Democrat serving as a stand-in for Kennedy. Since such a pair of defeats is no way to start a re-election campaign, the Carter forces have fought desperately to persuade Democratic Party officials in Massachusetts to delay their primary until April...
...peaceable democratic opposition groups have been ruthlessly suppressed. Though the junta has denied any plans to "export our revolution," Defense Department and intelligence officials are urging that the U.S. resume arms shipments to the three nations, which have been cut off since the Carter Administration began its human rights campaign...
...Administration is sure to cite the high earnings in its campaign to get Congress to pass a tax on the "windfall" profits the companies stand to receive under Carter's plan to decontrol the price of domestically produced oil Carter last week urged Americans to "let their voices be heard" against "an oil lobby working quietly" against the tax. While the public fumes at the big profits, most experts have defended the high earnings claiming that they finance further exoration. In any case, the profits boom is temporary: soon demand will come ore into line with supply, prices will...
DIED. Corinne Griffith, eightyish, star of silent movies (Black Oxen, 1924) and early talkies (Lilies of the Field, 1930); in Santa Monica, Calif. Griffith retired in 1932 to make a fortune in Beverly Hills real estate and to campaign for the repeal of the federal income tax, denying-in print and in divorce court-that she was the same Griffith who once graced the silent screen. "It tends to date one," she sniffed...