Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sanders, among other officials, was indifferent to Carter's righteous demands, thus fanning his suspicion of the "vested interests." After Carter won his case in court, John Pope?one of his biggest supporters in the fight?tried to get his help to land some state insurance business. Pope recalls, "Jimmy told me in the politest possible way to get lost." Carter helped send Boss Hurst to jail on a moonshining charge, and settling another personal score, defeated Sanders for the governorship in 1970 after a particularly bitter campaign...
...month, acquired the store in time, and saw Jimmy's father grow and pass him in success: "Everything Earl laid his hand down on, when he picked it up, there was three or four dollars. When he died he left about 4,000 acres of land and a heap of money in the bank...
...vast sandpile, the combatants in a little-known African war of liberation are carrying out search-and-destroy missions in the desolate 100,000-sq.-mi. area once known as the Spanish Sahara. On one side are an estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain independence for a new "Saharan...
Cool Relations. Party reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...
...LAND. Harold Pinter, the sphinx of modern drama, will not yield up his mystery, but Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud bountifully divulge a half-century apiece of the secrets of great acting...