Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOUTH. Carter has blunted Ford's attempted foray into the region and increased his own leads since the second debate, in part because of the President's mistake on Eastern Europe and the Earl Butz controversy. The Georgian runs ahead in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. Mississippi and Texas lean toward Carter, and a Republican poll now has Carter leading in the Lone Star State 51% to 45%. The contest is neck and neck in Louisiana, but Carter may break out ahead because Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards is putting his organization behind...
...receive formal rejections or silence. He is still hoping that conservative regimes in Taiwan, Paraguay, Malawi, Rhodesia and perhaps Ivory Coast may send delegations-but that will be about all. Even his nearest neighbors are shunning him. Swaziland says it will "continue to recognize the Transkei as a region of South Africa and nothing more," and Lesotho (which is surrounded by South Africa but, like Swaziland, was never part of it) has decided that the Transkei does not appear to "meet the requirements" of an independent state. Even the pretty black Miss Transkei has been ruled ineligible for the Miss...
...hardly coincidental that the Syrian attack took place on the eve of an Arab summit conference scheduled for this week in Cairo. Syria's President Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...
...loosely organized by geography, with scholarly gloss held to a welcome minimum. Prehistoric stone carvings from the southeastern forests immortalize a puma or a hawk in onyx and a snake in a slithering s of shiny mica. The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery...
...then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film...