Word: florida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyndon Johnson said that American troops were fighting the Communists in Viet Nam so that later generations would not have to fight them on American shores. Now, 90 miles from the sand of Florida, 3,000 Soviet combat troops are deployed. Will the generation born in the 1960s have to do just what Johnson wanted to avert...
Meanwhile, contingents of occupiers are pouring in from around the country. People have driven in from California, Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. A food brigade has arrived from Arizona; a supply wagon will come up from Pennsylvania. An antinuclear group in Scotland has sent us a message of endorsement...
...first year student at the Harvard Education School, said yesterday two batons will pass from runner to runner the length of the entire Eastern seaboard. One baton will travel south starting from Eastport, Maine, and the other will travel north from its starting point in Key West, Florida...
Both sides are girding for an absurdly early first battle in Florida. On Oct. 13, Democratic county caucuses will pick delegates to a state convention on Nov. 18, when a straw vote will be taken on the presidency. The Kennedy forces do not expect to win the straw vote, which has no official standing, because nearly half the dele gates will be chosen by party regulars loyal to Carter. But Kennedy would like to come out ahead in the caucus selection, which would be a blow to Carter in a state where the President is still popular...
...prevent such a setback, the President is pouring money, manpower and perks into Florida. Last week, Rosalynn Carter visited the state for the second time in 21 days. Self-contained and smiling, she could barely suppress her irritation when questioned about Kennedy's growing support: "I don't find the growing support. What we do is not predicated at all on what Senator Kennedy does. It doesn't matter what he does." Citing her husband's "solid record" of accomplishment, she noted the nation was not at war, 8 million more Americans were employed and progress...