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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would receive handily. Presidential candidate Humphrey was not so lucky. In his home state he received barely 51 per cent of the delegates headed to Miami, compared with 49 per cent committed to a liberal coalition of Chisholm-Lindsay-McCarthy-McGovern. Differences over the war, amnesty, gay rights, marijuana, abortion and a dozen other issues left the DFL with an unfortunate pattern of internal rifts that would be repeated nationally...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: "...a bomb went off in the john" | 7/23/1976 | See Source »

...mustache. When he emoted about his organic garden, he sounded like nothing so much as General Jack "purify our bodily essences" Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, he was that intense and dogmatic about it. But he was vegetarian, he meditated, and his eyes twinkled when he mentioned his "cash crop"--marijuana...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sliding Rock'n'Roll | 7/9/1976 | See Source »

...less than $38 million. Wealthy Jamaicans have illicitly exported perhaps $200 million abroad; some of the currency has been smuggled out in fake cigarettes, fortune cookies and pork carcasses. Says one member of an intelligence force trying to halt the financial outflow: "It has replaced the smuggling of ganja (marijuana) to Grand Cayman, Miami and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA: Jah Kingdom Goes to Waste' | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...health insurance for every American, financed from general tax revenues and a payroll tax shared by workers and employers. He would have the Federal Government pay more of the costs of welfare but not take it over entirely. He supports registering all handguns, reducing penalties for the use of marijuana and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from Predecessor Ronald Reagan, Brown honored his pledge to hold the line on taxes for individuals while keeping state spending growth to sub-Reagan rates. He signed into law a backlog of Reagan-blocked measures: new business taxes, a liberalized marijuana law, a so-called Gay Bill of Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brown: How the Guru Governs | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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