Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine, which would cripple the state's $14 billion farm industry and send produce prices soaring all over the U.S. Five states-Texas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina -have already announced bans on most California fruit, unless it has been fumigated...
Commercial television's Armageddon, previously announced for last week, has been postponed until further notice. After threatening for months to produce a list naming the sponsors most responsible for supporting sex, profanity and violence on TV, the Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television abruptly announced that its proposed consumer boycott of the offending advertisers was off-for the moment. Appearing at a Washington press conference with Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly and Moral Majority guru, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, CBTV head, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, explained that productive discussions with executives of the companies in question had made a boycott...
...which claims to represent 400 conservative organizations, including the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, has been threatening to attack network TV's Achilles' heel by a consumer boycott of its skittish sponsors. The head of CBTV is the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a Methodist preacher from Mississippi, who for the past four years has been monitoring TV as founder of one of the coalition's member groups, the National Federation for Decency. Relying on a new list of TV's most and least "constructive" shows, put together from a survey made by 4,000 "trained...
...what to do. Who is Wildmon to say he is the judge? When does it stop?" Joel Segal, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Ted Bates ad agency, was aroused enough to fault giant P & G for giving "credence and support to a bunch of radicals in Mississippi. They're putting their imprimatur on the work of people trying to impose their views on the rest of us." Ironically, even P & G might be criticized for putting sex on the air, since its high moral standards seem to go into effect only after sundown, during the prime...
...recalling Koch the liberal (as opposed to the "liberal with sanity," as he describes himself now) is that it reveals an essential part of his makeup. Civil rights was not a lost cause in 1964, but in Laurel it could appear like one. During the period Koch spent in Mississippi, the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, were discovered. Koch himself...