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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet Talk. A genial, sometimes bumbling Georgia millionaire whose family fortune (mainly from textiles) is estimated at $40 million, Callaway is the focus of investigations by the FBI, a Senate Interior subcommittee and the Civil Aeronautics Board. The primary accusation was that on his final day as Army Secretary last July, he persuaded officials of the Agriculture Department to review a ruling by its subsidiary, the U.S. Forest Service. The original ruling had barred Crested Butte's promoters from leasing 2,000 acres of federal land on which to build new ski runs, which would have tripled the size...
Democratic Senator Floyd Haskell of Colorado ordered his Interior subcommittee to investigate. Callaway professed his innocence, and Ford declared that he had "full faith" in him. Nonetheless, Callaway has "temporarily" stepped down from his job until the investigation is over. He is succeeded by Political Director Spencer, who masterminded Ford's primary victories...
...author refers to his own eventful Nigeria trip in a rather hurried epilogue, but he leaves the reader hungry for news of the interior, for reports on the nation that survived its predators. "The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strong Brown God proves it. Old Africa stands revealed; current Nigeria apparently remains terra incognita...
WHENEVER WALLACE wants to send another Albert Brewer to the showers, he wheels himself out and goes straight to the John Rawbons, spread over the dark inner continent of Florida. Some people who venture into that dark interior which begins at the Everglades and runs up the center of the Thumb past Tallahassee and Chatahoochee find the Rawbons. These are the Wallace people, who would vote for Wallace even if he were dead because of what he represented to the spreading rot of the North. Last week Wallace said that he would consider a black man for vice president...
...limited resources of the movement in building liberated areas in the center of Angola. Its headquarters and leadership were permanently established inside Angola. By maintaining complete contact with the peasantry and studying at close quarters the factors specific to the Angola struggle, UNITA succeeded in implanting within Angola's interior a solid infrastructure for guerrilla warfare and national reconstruction. Within a relatively brief period of existence UNITA significantly bridged the gap between intellectual leadership and the Angola reality of a massive peasant majority...