Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial crunch is hard on candidates as well as on cities. Bayh has closed shop, Harris is suspending activity for two months to raise money, Udall is spending the next month before Wisconsin soliciting funds, Wallace owes hundreds of thousands to his direct-mail firm, Carter is out there hustling short on cash. Jackson is no exception--he had $1.5 million cash on hand as of February 1--on February...
South Africa therefore threw its support to Unita and FNLA. Savimbi, Unita's president, was sympathetic. He told the South African Financial Mail in May 1975 that he hopes "future leaders of Angola will cooperate with South Africa" and that apartheid "is a South African problem" and much misunderstood. By contrast, the MPLA has already provided a base for the operations of SWAPO of Namibia, the Namibian liberation movement...
MORRIS DEES, 39, Finance Chairman. An elegant Southern millionaire, he is a widely known liberal attorney and civil rights activist (TIME, March 17). Dees and a partner founded a company that sold mail-order books; it was bought by the Los Angeles Times in 1969 for $6 million. In 1972 he used his direct-mail skills to raise $20 million for the McGovern campaign. Late last year he joined the Carter campaign. In five months, Dees nearly tripled the candidate's treasury, to more than $2 million...
...Four alleged plotters in Massachusetts' $1.5 million "Great Plymouth Mail Robbery," all acquitted...
Several new accusations are also unveiled. Some are absurdly trivial: the article notes that Carter says he opens all the campaign mail sent to his Plains, Ga., home but really does not; Carter says he or his wife does. Other charges are somewhat more substantial: that Carter led anti-McGovern forces in 1972, ran a dirty tricks gubernatorial campaign in 1970 and withheld materials that point up inconsistencies in his record from the Georgia State Department of Archives and History. Some of the assertions are true, most notably the one about McGovern. Many of the other charges are open...