Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pride and Power. If his opponents somehow coalesced to block him, they would make the whole primary campaign look like a charade and probably lose the South, which increasingly views the Georgian as the man who has brought pride and power to the region. Thus, the D.N.C. is already preparing for the July convention and the fall campaign on the premise he will be the candidate. Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss officially must remain neutral, but he also expects to avoid a deadlock or a bloodbath at Madison Square Garden. He told a party luncheon last week: "I made a commitment...
...Argentina's incorporation into the concert of military dictatorships has reinforced its repression and hegemony. This bloc of right-wing juntas and dictators, of course, naturally responds to many of the basic economic and political interests of the United States in Latin America. American interests are to keep the region free from communism and open to heavy foreign investment...
...Center in Nairobi, where 3,000 delegates from 124 countries had gathered for the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Kissinger had earlier come out in support of a $7.5 billion development project to "turn back the desert" in the drought-stricken Sahel region of West Africa. His Nairobi speech laid out a comprehensive program to deal with the fundamental problems of development in poor lands everywhere. His recommendations included plans...
...pitfalls and pratfalls, Kissinger had come to Africa to announce, for the first time, a coherent and far-reaching American policy in the region. In a major policy speech, which he delivered in Lusaka, following a series of friendly talks with Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Kissinger forcefully aligned the U.S. with the proponents of black majority rule and against the white regimes of southern Africa. The U.S., he said, is "wholly committed to help bring about a rapid, just and African solution" in Rhodesia (which Kissinger pointedly referred...
Even such advances cannot solve the social problems that have resulted from the watch industry's decline. To a large extent, watchmaking has remained a cottage industry, with production divided among more than 1,000 firms scattered throughout the foothills of the French-speaking Jura region. Unemployment among the workers has inevitably affected Switzerland's normally strike-free labor relations. In January, 189 workers at a U.S.-owned Bulova plant in Neuchátel went on strike to oppose plans for consolidating production in Bienne, 20 miles down the road...