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...just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said...
...been drowned out by the louder outcry of the cities over kindred troubles. Small Town, U.S.A., is in fact likely to be heard from more and more in coming years. In the past decade, through such channels as the National Association of Towns and Townships and the Congressional Rural Caucus, small towns have begun voicing a more concerted plea for federal assistance. By last December they had prodded the White House, long obsessed with city problems, into issuing for the first time a formal policy on small community and rural development. That act represented, whatever else, official recognition that small...
...discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...
...women included political neophytes, hand-picked party workers or their wives, union representatives and elected officials. Also present were hundreds of members, both men and women, of the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus and the National Abortion Rights Action League. Preconvention polling by these groups showed that they had the votes to win on major issues, but no one knew how the delegates would react to high-pressure politicking by the Carter forces...
Ammons was a school track star and president of the student senate when she went to a local caucus meeting in January. Says Ammons: "I was just sitting there watching when a neighbor asked if I wanted to be an alternate delegate to the district convention in Waterloo. I delegate said, to 'I the guess so.' " There she substituted for an absent delegate and was elected to the state convention. By then she was politicking in earnest, passing out KYM buttons and placards, and was chosen as one of Iowa's 50 delegates to the national convention...