Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billy is my brother. He is seriously ill at this point. I love him." With these emotional words, Jimmy Carter tried last week at his press conference to put an end to the ugly rumble of resentment over the increasingly reckless be havior of his younger brother Billy...
Jane Byrne, meanwhile, trudged from campaign lunches to dinners and church socials, repeatedly assailing "grease jobs" and "snow jobs" and "deceit" and "greed." Although she was outspent 10 to 1 by the machine, the press amplified her cries. She repeatedly invoked the names of Daley and John F. Kennedy, implying that they would have approved of her fight...
...press conference last week, President Carter declared how important it was that the nations of this area "know that we have a real interest, a real national interest, in the stability and peace of that region, and particularly for the supply of oil, the routes through which the oil is delivered to ourselves and to our friends and allies throughout the world...
...causes of the Iranian revolution. Said he: "There were only two issues. They weren't land reform; you talk to Iranians about land reform and they laugh at you. They weren't women's rights, rights of minorities, all the things that appeared in the American press. One issue was corruption: that included the military expenditures, which were enormous, and the grandiose industrial developments. The other was civil rights: the fact that people were arrested, murdered, tortured, and disappeared, tens of thousands of them...
Ever since the collapse of the Sino-Soviet alliance 18 years ago, a specter has haunted the U.S.S.R.: China's military might. While Poet Yevtushenko depicts Chinese soldiers as descendants of Genghis Khan's Mongol horde, which held Russia in thrall for three centuries, the Soviet press, radio and television more commonly compare the People's Liberation Army to Hitler's invading Wehrmacht in World War II. A film frequently screened on Soviet television showed Chinese officers shouting frenzied battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists...