Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Gallup poll indicated that the more Americans know about the treaties, the more likely they are to favor ratification. Hoping that grass-roots approval will be reflected in Washington, the Administration has sent Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz on the road to drum up support for the treaties. The Panamanians have said si, but for the U.S. Senators it's still wait...
...week's end Carter turned a successful threeday, six-stop westward trip into a campaign to inspire grass roots support for his program. In Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California, Carter seized every chance he could find to hammer home the point that nothing less than the economic and military security of the nation rested on the fate of his energy legislation. He also placed his own prestige on the line, declaring at one point: "I have equated the energy policy legislation with either success or failure of my first year in office as a leader of our country...
...treaty's supporters have made a number of blunders. Battling on too many other fronts, the Carter Administration let the opposition get the jump on it by waiting too long to start educating grass-roots America on the intricacies of the treaty. Further, the White House's handling of Congress was not as adroit as it might have been. Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan complained of the Senate: "Some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Senator Clifford Case...
...into the nation of Zaire. The country, Forbath writes, is becoming un recognizable. "The tribal villages are also by and large gone . . . displaced by dreary modern mining towns" where tribes men wear plastic hard hats and carry lunch buckets, and "fires can be seen burning everywhere, burning through the grass, blackening the earth, destroying the land." But the river remains unchanged...
...concern about the effects of marijuana took on a new dimension during his four-year stay in Princeton. Humes says he began to notice a "heavy influx of treated grass" coming into the Mercer County, N.J. area in the early '70s, and he decided to look into the matter by systematically collecting samples of the worst batches of chemically-strengthened marijuana. Princeton police placed Humes under arrest for marijuana possession on July 16, 1973 during a routine visit to serve him with another arrest warrant for a probation violation. He was taken into custody for having collected the samples...