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...impressive Liberal tide began building in the four Atlantic provinces, then swept through the traditional Liberal bastion of Quebec, and into the industrial heartland of Ontario. By the time prairie voters turned on television to hear the results from the east, the Liberals had won 144 seats, two more than necessary to control the new House of Commons. From Manitoba west, however, the Liberals managed to win only two seats, thus leaving the country troublesomely divided along strict geographical lines...
...district Anderson represents is American heartland, the northwest corner of Illinois, where the farming is good and the biggest city, Rockford, has a population of 272,000. Anderson has been the Congressman here since 1960, and he has served his constituents and party well...
They call it the heartland, a term with appropriate connotations. When the Vietnamese boat people came to the U.S. last spring, the state of Iowa actively sought 1,500 for resettlement. When Governor Robert Ray toured Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand and returned with tales of starving children, offers of aid from lowans flooded the statehouse, the Des Moines Register and churches. The interest was so great that just before Thanksgiving the Governor announced a program called Iowa Shares, an acronym for Iowa Sends Help to Aid Refugees and End Starvation...
...flatly rejected a British scheme by which the guerrillas would assemble at 15 widely dispersed camps, which they felt would be too isolated and vulnerable. Their agreement was extracted by a British concession in a numbers game. It gave the Front forces a 16th camp in the Rhodesian heartland and empowered the newly arrived British Governor, Lord Soames, to designate additional concentrations, if the guerrillas report in the large numbers that they claim. The current British estimate is 20,000 men; the Front says it has some...
...Middle Westerner turned self-made Eastern snob, assumes nothing else interesting has ever happened in Bloomington. The traveler is wrong. Bloomington, Ill., is the county seat of McLean County. If you are talking corn and soybeans, McLean County is the capital of the world. If you are talking heartland, you are standing on it: topsoil two, three, five feet deep, divided on the plot map into square-mile sections still owned by descendants of German and Scotch-Irish immigrants who cleared and settled their way across Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana, out onto the prairie. If you are talking history...