Word: kinged
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...Udall told this story not as an example of courage-or foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after two decades of violence that have seen the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the crippling of George Wallace and two near misses on Gerald Ford...
...unofficial launching of his reelection campaign. Those invited were told that their attendance would be considered an endorsement of the President for renomination. Almost 500 party powers showed up, including 109 Congressmen, a dozen Senators and a pride of Governors (Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Julian Carroll of Kentucky, Bruce King of New Mexico) and mayors (Edward Koch of New York City, Thomas Bradley of Los Angeles, Coleman Young of Detroit, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta). The Governors and mayors know quite well that Carter has at least another 15 months in which to approve or deny federal grants to their states...
...Carter resolved a foreign policy impasse by approving the sale of advanced U.S. arms to Morocco. The State Department had argued against the sale, contending that if Morocco's King Hassan II got American weapons, his opponents, the Polisario guerrillas, might solicit more help from the Soviet Union, posing the threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after...
Connally has a point, and he consulted such experts as Henry Kissinger and Jordan's King Hussein before adopting it. Although his proposal goes somewhat further than Jimmy Carter's support of a Palestinian "homeland," self-determination is obviously a principle that has widespread support. Indeed, some experts believe it is the only principle that can attract the volatile Palestinians to the negotiating table. Other experts wonder, nonetheless, what coercion would persuade the Israelis to agree to any plan that might bring the Palestine Liberation Organization to sovereign power. And, although the pro-Israeli protests may be exaggerated...
HARVARD 21 BROWN 20; As Martin Luther King said: "I have a dream." As Aerosmith said: "Dream...