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...occasion was important enough for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to interrupt his official tour of Greece last week and make a statement. Almost 5,000 miles away, fellow Quebecker Brian Mulroney, 44, a bilingual businessman who became leader of the opposition Progressive Conservative Party in June, had just won his first seat in the House of Commons. Mulroney had thus positioned himself to run for Prime Minister in Canada's next federal elections. Graciously calling Mulroney "a formidable opponent," Trudeau, 63, declared: "We will certainly be treating him with respect-and apprehension...
...months, Jackson has been crisscrossing the country conducting voter-registration revival meetings to bring blacks into the political process. He will cry: "We need 10,000 blacks running for office from Virginia around to Texas?county clerks, supervisors, sheriffs, judges, legislators, Governors?Just run! Run! Run!" His audience will interrupt: Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run! "When you run, the masses register...
WBUR, affiliated with Boston University, will air specially prepared requests for money in between its musical programs and the nationally syndicated programs "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" will for the first time interrupt their news programs to ask for contributions. Jane Christa, a WBUR spokesman, said...
Usually, member stations stage their own fund drives, preventing NPR from asking any listeners for money. Christa said, adding that even during this emergency some local stations are not willing to interrupt their programs with place for money...
Across America last week, the nation's farm land had a bizarre new look. In Kansas, large brown patches of stubble-studded earth interrupt shimmering golden carpets of ripening winter wheat. In Nebraska, idle center-pivot sprinklers stand like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more than half of the acreage normally devoted to rice lies uncultivated. The cause of the crop cutback is not drought or disaster but a new federal program that rewards farmers, partly in cash and partly in grain and cotton, for taking large tracts of land out of production. Called payment...