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...Though Carter has not taken all the stock liberal positions. Young feels that blacks are instinctively sympathetic to him. "Jimmy doesn't need that much advice about black issues," says Young. "His childhood was with blacks. He knows the poverty of rural Southern people firsthand. We've had the kind of experience in Georgia that is practically unmatched anywhere else in the world. Atlanta is the only place where a banker or a big businessman and a welfare mother might end up at the same cocktail party." This contrasts, adds Young, with the "adversary" style of politics...
Into Law. Why does a sure winner bother to campaign? As one supporter puts it, "The campaign is vital. The candidate learns firsthand the state of the nation. He learns the problems and also the opportunities of development." A relative latecomer to Mexican politics, Lopez Portillo is also believed to be working out the goals of his new administration, which will take over the reins of government on Dec. 1. The son of a Mexico City schoolteacher, López Portillo grew up in what he calls a "typical middle-class family." While attending the National University he became friends...
...Nothing to be heard from morning to night but 'Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!' " That was Dr. Lewis Beebe's vivid recollection of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold's expeditionary forces retreating from Quebec Province last month. As firsthand accounts of the debacle are gathered, it becomes increasingly clear that the expedition's most dangerous enemy was not gunfire but disease. Says Congressional Delegate John Adams of Massachusetts: "The small pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians together. This was the cause of our precipitate retreat from Quebec, this the cause of our disgraces...
...have the unique distinction of being the first Prime Minister of Japan to have lived, worked and studied in the U.S. and to have gained firsthand an indelible experience of the many meanings of American democracy...
...specific case in his conversation with Augustine, nor was there any evidence to back up what he had said. According to Ulmer, the outspoken Ringgold then told him the authorities were looking in the wrong place for culprits. Asked Ulmer: "Are you telling me that you have firsthand knowledge of cadets who have violated the honor code apart from what we know?" "Yes, sir," said Ringgold. Ulmer promptly advised him that he would have to go before an honor code review board once again. Ulmer later explained that he was "morally obligated" to turn Ringgold in after the cadet...