Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit: Coleman A. Young, 59, is equally at home wolfing down hot dogs on a ghetto street or dining on filet de boeuf Richelieu with Henry Ford II. An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, Young was rewarded when the President paid him a visit during the campaign. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and Muhammad Ali also came into the state. Henry Ford II lent his assistance. Young's main opposition was concentrated in the largely white police force, where there is particular resentment against his policy of favoring blacks for city jobs and promotions...
Hyland gives Gerald Ford high marks for keeping détente-and SALT-alive at Vladivostok later that year: "Ford was good on SALT, and more willing to go into details than Nixon...
...there anything that can be done to influence South Africa? U.S. policy on southern Africa has changed sharply under the Carter Administration. Henry Kissinger almost completely ignored Africa for seven of his eight years in the Nixon-Ford Administrations. Then, after the Cuban military involvement in Angola, Kissinger went twice to Africa and seemed for a time to be on the verge of securing a settlement in Rhodesia. His strategy was to solicit Vorster's help on Rhodesia and Namibia and defer the question of South Africa's apartheid. Kissinger believed majority rule in Rhodesia and independence for Namibia were...
...soccer season, disappointing although not in any fashion a disappointment, proved a number of things. Primarily, it proved that Coach George Ford may, at last, feel completely comfortable at the helm. The problems that have beset that man in the past seasons are too numerous to delineate. But the period of adjustment has apparently ended, and it should not be very long before Harvard enjoys the national rankings it held in the early '70s. They almost got there this year...
...additions to the program were two boyhood pals turned professional soccer players, Mike Stricklin and Kevin Welsch. These assistant coaches provided Ford with examples of American players who made good, a definite asset to a program where out of 20 varsity players, almost half were freshmen and sophomores. It is also rumored that Stricklin and Welsch know a little about the game itself, although you could never tell by just meeting them...