Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter, claims one veteran home-state politician with grudging admiration, is like a south Georgia turtle...
Hailed as an anti-racist politician of the "New South," Carter supports busing of schoolchildren when ordered by courts, although he prefers voluntary systems such as that in the Atlanta area...
...guns than other Americans care about disarming them. Though polls indicate that 64% of the public favors some kind of tougher Federal restrictions on guns, these people do not carry the political weight of the determined and well-organized gun supporters. They have proved that they will punish a politician if he so much as mentions gun control, and they have shown that they can defeat...
JAPAN. Where the traditional greeting is a bow rather than physical contact, politicians maintain almost total aloofness. During election tours, the Prime Minister and other leaders are constantly surrounded by police, making their open-air speeches from sound trucks and never mixing with the crowd. They wave to the crowds from inside, and when a stop is made, a corridor of police forms for the politician to move from vehicle to building. Breaking through such lines to shake hands is all but unheard...
...from the Communists, the new government faces monumental problems, including a 30% inflation rate, an ever-rising population of Angolan refugees and-perhaps worst of all-a general collapse of public morale. "We must show the people something practical being done," said Vasco Vieira de Almeida, a prominent independent politician. "They must see housing and hospitals being built. They must hear the sound of hammers every morning...