Word: ga
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...people gawked and pointed, squinted and saluted, did double takes, took snapshots and lifted small children to give them a better look at what their future might hold. "Oh, here comes another one!" cried Susie Black, one of hundreds of people who lined the streets of Donalsonville, Ga., (pop. 3,500) last week to watch the strange procession roll along U.S. 84. "This is the most excitement we've had here since those murders a few years back...
...basement of a church in Macon, Ga., officers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are holding their annual meeting in mid-June. Joseph Lowery, the organization's president, says, "The S.C.L.C. does not endorse candidates. But I does." Yet Lowery marks several points of disagreement with the man who would be Georgia's Governor -- for example, the candidate's newfound support for capital punishment. Even members of Dr. King's organization, for which Young worked in the glory days of the '60s, will give him only qualified support. The Rev. Mr. Lowery continues, "I support Andrew Young, not because...
...trying to become the first black Governor elected in the Deep South. His urbane background and contacts, suspect qualities to some black activists, make him even more menacing to poor whites. He is not only "uppity." He is up, while they are still down. As a woman in Baxby, Ga., told a reporter following Young, "I think the coloreds are trying to overpower. That's the way most everyone feels. They're trying to overpower the whites." She is turning against Young the credentials he offers to voters: his success at bringing new business and wealth into Atlanta during...
Young, who speaks in the fluting accents of Southern civility, has always had a quiet dignity in his dealings with whites. Even as a young pastor in the 1950s in Thomasville, Ga., he jolted that little community by going to the front doors of white townspeople, not to the side or back entries. He is used to having gates open for him. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous light-skinned dentist who liked to stress the family's "Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball...
Having met with little support from the WhiteHouse, Harvard lobbyists "have been focusing on alegislative remedy" to the Helms Amendment, saidParker Coddington, director of governmentalrelations. The University's main ally on CapitolHill has been Rep. J. Roy Howland (D-Ga.), who hasintroduced legislation that would give Sullivanthe ability to remove the AIDS virus from theImmigration and Naturalization Service's list ofexcludable diseases...