Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampton, Editor The Miami Herald Miami...
...Western plan had been accepted by South Africa in April. Last week South African Foreign Minister R.F. ("Pik") Botha cautiously called SWAPO's acceptance a development that "could herald a new era in southern Africa." Some South African officials, however, remain skeptical about whether SWAPO guerrillas are genuinely prepared to enter into peaceable rivalry with Namibia's only other major political force, the moderate, white-aligned Democratic Turnhalle Alliance...
...readers to mark a "ballot" on how they felt about taxes, reported the largest response to any mail poll it has ever conducted. More than 117,000 replies overwhelmed the ballot counters, who reported that sentiment solidly supported sharp cuts in all taxes-property, sales and income. The Boston Herald American in a similar poll found that about 80% of responding readers backed a proposal to place a lid on property taxes at 2.5% of market value. A bill to do just that was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature by four Republican lawmakers...
...Star had been without an editor since last November, when able James G. Bellows, 55, went to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Bellows had begun an energetic program of editorial rebuilding, but was convinced that Allbritton's austerity moves, which had brought the paper back to near the break-even point, were blocking his efforts. Indeed, the work of both men had greatly strengthened the Star, but, says a Star staffer, "we've been rudderless since Bellows left...
...once gave a romantic veil to the sordid history of Africa's colonization. American newspapers seized on the invasion of Shaba province by Katangan rebels and the subsequent rescue mission by French and Belgian paratroopers, as if they had found a modern version of Stanley and Livingston. The Boston Herald-American screamed out "Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll for blacks--a much higher number--was not even mentioned for the first few days, then left casually at "several hundred...