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...FIVE MONTHS in Winston-Salem confirmed some of my preconceptions--and biases--about the South. But it shattered more. I met tax-revolters and tobacco farmers at the Grange Hall (to their delight, I parked my car and stepped out into a ditch), textile heirs at the Hyatt House and "spirit-filled" Christians at weekend barbecues. I baked Moravian sugar cakes and giggled through a meal in a restaurant that sandwiched its Virginia ham between slices of kosherrye...
Such protests have given Hyatt second thoughts about allowing the conference, but cancellation could bring a six-figure damage suit by the sponsors...
...bring together on Feb. 18-21 arms manufacturers, potential buyers and military strategy experts from the U.S. and foreign countries, including the Soviet Union, Egypt and South Korea. Nearly 60 exhibitors, among them such U.S. defense manufacturers as Beech Aircraft and Boeing Aerospace, have signed up. Simultaneously, in the Hyatt Hotel, former intelligence officials of the U.S. and Britain and military strategy specialists from business and academia will stage a "Conference on Strategic Directions." The conference, says Chief Sponsor Gregory Copley, editor of Britain's Defense and Foreign Affairs Publications, will offer strategy experts the opportunity to discuss...
...Democratic Party Activist Marjorie Benton, a U.S. delegate to last year's U.N. special session on disarmament: "This is not a dog show, not a boat show. It's a military hardware show where they'll be selling everything from thumbscrews to missiles." At the Hyatt stockholders' meeting last week, Benton delivered an impassioned eight-minute lecture on corporate morality. Senator Charles Percy and Representative Abner J. Mikva have asked the sponsors to cancel the exhibition...
Letter writers have protested to Hyatt and Illinois' Rosemont Village, which owns the Exposition Center. The group, "Mobilization for Survival," composed of antinuclear, environmentalist and peace activists, has threatened a demonstration if the exhibition takes place. One of the prospective protesters is Actor and Disarmament Delegate Paul Newman...