Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture intended to "show the flag 90 miles north of Cuba." Military maneuvers would be expanded in the Caribbean (including amphibious landings of Marines on the beaches at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba). Finally, Carter gave assurances that he would speed up development of rapid deployment forces, a group of 100,000 servicemen that will be equipped to fly to any crisis spot in the world on short notice...
...tiny, windowless office on West Palm Beach's Datura Street, Erica Bennett last week made one phone call after another to musical booking agents. Finally, she lined up the Gwen McCray group for a free performance at Gains Park next Saturday afternoon for 1,000 young people. But this will be disco with a difference: before going to the dance, each guest will be expected to stop by Forest Hill High School and cast a vote of confidence for Jimmy Carter...
...nailed up a sign reading BIENVENIDO AL PUERTO DE BALBOA-BRIDGE OF THE WORLD. As evening fell, a solemn, subdued crowd of Americans watched as the Stars and Stripes was lowered-for the last time-at the U.S.-operated headquarters of the Panama Canal Co. Next morning an animated group of Panamanians cheered as their country's white, red and blue banner was run up a new flagpole atop bush-covered Ancon Hill. The Panama Canal Zone, the 648-sq.-mi. enclave that had been under U.S. sovereignty since 1903, had ceased to exist. Its absorption by Panama...
...Zonians' dismay at the Carter Administration's "giveaway" of the Canal Zone burst into the open at a flag-lowering ceremony at Balboa High School. "Jimmy stinks," chanted a group of American students standing outside the school as the U.S. flag was lowered. Zonians joked that Foul Play, the film showing at the local theater, was grimly appropriate; the movie was replaced the day after the turnover by El Expreso de los Espias, a spy film starring Robert Shaw and Lee Marvin that was titled Avalanche Express in the U.S. Shortly before the switch in sovereignty, many Americans...
...cowardly appeasement that can only lead to the white man's downfall and annihilation." Connie Mulder, former Minister of Information who was banished from the ruling party for his involvement in South Africa's recent influence-peddling scandal, defiantly announced the formation of a new opposition group, a pro-apartheid Action Front for National Priorities. One indication that Mulder's party might have a future emerged from four by-elections at week's end. Fewer than 35% of the eligible whites, one of the lowest turnouts in the past 30 years, turned up at the polls...