Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orren said he and Verba plan to analyze the results in greater detail in a book, paying particular attention to views of equality and to the degree to which leaders represent the groups they are supposed to exemplify...
Fleshing out the story, Haley was able to write the African section of the book in great detail having done extensive research in libraries and archives in over 50 cities on three continents, and having interviewed African "griots," the village storytellers. For Haley, these men of an ancient profession symbolized "how all human ancestry goes back to some place, and some time, where there was no writing. Then, the memories and the mouths of the ancient elders were the only way that early history of mankind got passed along...
...grasp of all the issues. Ford-can be impressive in his presentation of an argument. Last February, during the New Hampshire primary campaign, he delivered to state and local officials an explanation of the new federal budget that some observers thought-remarkable, considering the subject-was outstanding in its detail and clarity. As House minority leader in the '60s, standing in the well of the House and speaking from hastily scribbled notes, Ford became skilled at summing up debates. Remembers one colleague: "He was never abrasive, even though he was always partisan, and he never showed the tension...
...Uganda--is accorded a scant few sentences and dismissed as a failure. That is however, considerably better than the discussion of Amin's shift from a relatively close relationship with Israel to a virtual alliance with Lybia. While the pathology of Amin's anti-Zionist position is explored in detail, in all its vicious paranoia, no serious effort to explain the political and/or economic motivations of his new alliance is attempted. It would seem that one is meant to chalk the whole thing up to the whimsical ways of a deranged dictator...
...orange Sikorsky helicopter, high above the city of Zurich and far from any demonstrators. Over dinner (at which the South Africans were hosts) and lunch (given by the Americans) and in between, the two leaders talked for a total of 13 hours, reviewing the southern African situation in considerable detail. Though neither was prepared to disclose the substance of the talks, it is known that the chief subjects discussed were Namibia and Rhodesia...