Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there clearly is a danger that they may be turning off sympathizers, militant gays are convinced that their vendetta against Bryant has helped this movement, and regard last June's defeat in Dade County as their Alamo. Since then, the homosexuals' drive for civil rights has become increasingly active and confident. There have also been sporadic acts of harassment directed against other figures whom the gays see as their current enemies...
...forums, including Yale University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan. Doubtless to his irritation, he will not be the only Spanish leftist stumping in the U.S. Felipe González, 35, leader of the Socialist Workers Party, whose 28.5% of the vote in the June elections far surpassed the Communists' slim 9%, will be in Washington for talks with Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. No officials have invited Carrillo for a chat...
...unanswered question is how long the regulatory machinery of government, which many white South Africans fear is turning their country into a police state, can control unrest. In June 1976, student-inspired riots broke out in the sprawling black suburb of Soweto, outside Johannesburg; urban black unrest has continued sporadically across the country ever since, taking more than 600 lives. Two months ago, a young black leader, Stephen Biko, 30, died mysteriously in prison. An inquest is still pending, but there is widespread suspicion that prison beating contributed to his death. The Biko case produced further disorder...
...idle boast. The 1,600 seats in Harrah's showrooms are almost always filled every night, and top performers sell out nearly a month in advance: a recent John Denver engagement drew 82,000 telephone-reservation requests in a single week. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, Harrah's hotels averaged a high 92% occupancy rate and net profit rose 25% from 1976 to a record $14.6 million on a 13.5% increase in revenues, which totaled $161.6 million. Unlike many casinos in Las Vegas that cater primarily to heavy-spending Eastern gamblers, Harrah...
...under an implied threat of being run out of Canada, where it has a big uranium-mining operation. But some Gulf letters and memorandums unearthed by investigators seem to indicate that the company was, at minimum, anxious not to be left out. One Gulf lawyer wrote a memo in June 1972 outlining the potential advantages of membership, and suggesting that if the cartel's activities ever came to light Gulf could blame everything on the Canadian government. Another Gulf officer took it on himself to pull together several scattered sets of cartel rules into a single code of conduct...