Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrive first [Dec. 11]?" The ancestors of our present-day Indians and Eskimos came from Asia via Alaska, and the Norwegians, Danes and Irish appear to have found their way to our eastern coast about the year A.D. 1000. If they discovered America, nobody knew it. Now, with the land full of people and automobiles, those who are here by reason of Columbus' notable discovery are telling us that Columbus did not discover America...
...Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters, and has been stumping the country expressing his reservations about SALT II. A cool, persuasive debater, he argues that the pact that seems to be taking shape would leave U.S. land missiles vulnerable to a Soviet first strike...
...problems that land on a President's desk are often so pressing and immediate-rioting in Iran or a threat from Moscow-that he is in danger of losing his perspective on the long-run effects of his policy. In an effort to remedy that, Jimmy Carter asked National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to outline the global problems and prospects for the coming year, and late in December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework...
...subjects scare and anger American farmers more than reports that carpetbagging foreigners are swallowing up U.S. agricultural land from Georgia to California. To hear many farmers and farm-belt politicians tell it, at least half the population of Europe and maybe a few million Arabs and Japanese are storming ashore, moneybags in hand, to buy every spare square inch of topsoil...
Certainly some foreign purchases have occurred, and ads offering U.S. farm land dance across European newspapers and magazines. Still, aliens are neither big buyers nor big owners of land. In the unlikely event that a buying boom were to start tomorrow, it would not hurt either farmers or the country as a whole...