Word: governors
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...arrogant and protective plantation owner, although he preferred sowing oil leases to crops. He fought federal intervention with Faulknerian tenacity, a battle that began over control of oil reserves and evolved into a crusade against "forced integration," which he saw as the plot of an international Communist conspiracy. Taunted Governor Earl Long: "What are you going to do now, Leander? The Feds have got the atom bomb...
...mile south of Beth-El is the Palestinian town of Al-Bireh (pop. 22,000). Last month the Israeli military governor issued an order closing 7,000 dunams (1,750 acres) just north of Al-Bireh to Arab development and construction. The order further decreed that all construction work presently under way must be stopped. Al-Bireh officials and residents are angry because the ruling effectively prevents any kind of expansion for the town's growing population...
Israeli officials claim that the latest Al-Bireh order was necessary for security reasons. They point out that the disputed land adjoins the military governor's headquarters. As one official explained, "We do not want to be confronted one morning by houses on the borders of our military camps." That may be a valid point, except that Beth-El, meanwhile, is being built on land originally expropriated by Israel solely for military purposes. Abdul Jawad Hussein, a retired businessman who owns part of the land where Beth-El is being built, says that since 1969 the Israelis have fenced...
...story on the resurgence of the K.K.K. apparently provoked the brick throwing and crossburning that have left the office with half its front window boarded. Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch called Minor a "political assassin" over another story, on an automobile accident; the highway patrol car in which Finch was riding bumped a black youth on a motorcycle, and the police report was buried until Minor received one of the dozen or so tips he gets each day. The Finch administration has been the target of Minor's reports of slush funds and campaign contributions from out-of-state engineers...
...prospered, Wilmot became an important Democratic Party fund raiser. He has entertained New York Governor Hugh Carey and Robert Kennedy in his Rochester home. After his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1968, Hubert Humphrey relaxed at Wilmot's 400-acre hunting reserve at Mendon, N.Y. Wilmot, his friends and associates contributed large sums to the 1974 reelection campaign of Senator Daniel Inouye, member of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, and in 1976 to a fund set up by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, then majority leader, for the campaigns of Democratic Congressmen...