Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scarcely a year ago, Carter was rejecting his critics' "inordinate fear of Communism" and ridiculing those who thought it imperative to react "every time [Leonid] Brezhnev sneezes." What eventually brought the President to the point of taking a different line was the latest crisis in Africa, this one in the huge copper-rich nation of Zaïre, once known as the Belgian Congo. There, a force of 1,900 French and Belgian paratroops, assisted by 18 U.S. jet transports, had just routed another invasion of Zaire's Shaba region (formerly Katanga province) by secessionists based in Angola...
Rebels are gone, but fear lingers...
...looted by both sides (Zaïrian troops walked off with whatever the rebels had left behind), houseboys by habit padlocked gates and tended gardens, waiting for their employers to return. In Brussels, however, the majority of white survivors insisted that they would never go back, out of fear that a reign of terror in which so many friends had lost their lives could be repeated...
...narrow opening between front runners and booted him home the winner by 1¼ lengths. He used horse balm to soothe his tight, sore right hand and its ugly crisscrossed scar and went about the business of riding. Says Trainer Tommy Kelly: "I don't think the kid has any fear. He just put some of our liniment on his hand and went out there and rode. No hesitation, no fear...
Predictably, there are occasional grumblings about the blossoming foreign presence. Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch the country's economy into a tailspin. In Hollywood and Hallandale, just south of Fort Lauderdale, 20% of the population is now French speaking; the Canadian flag flies over bars, restaurants and motels, many of which are Canadian owned. Longtime residents gripe that the new arrivals are clannish, refuse...