Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each-a direct blow at the holdings of large corporate farmers. Many Western farmers also oppose Carter's determination to hold down agricultural subsidies. West Coast lumbermen fault him for not easing restrictions on their operations in federal lands. Observed Democratic Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado: "This whole region is just neurotic on the subject of the Carter Administration...
...century: "Major reduction in carrier levels, the heart of U.S. naval capabilities, will reduce the ability of a President to respond rapidly to crisis ... Should the U.S. draw down its forward deployments, this could leave the Soviet Union as the dominant naval power in the vacated region...
...fact, by 1978, the region had established public images of itself that may never be surpassed−portraits teeming with grotesqueries, distortions, exaggerations, sentimentalisms, myths and quasi folklore. All of them have been interesting enough to visit. Only it has been impossible to get there from here: for these locales have existed only as figments of storytellers, film makers, dramatists and songsmiths, who asked, Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Not very often...
Warren Christopher, 52. As meticulous, painstaking and self-effacing as his boss, the Deputy Secretary has been called "Vance's Vance." Also a lawyer, he has been the principal troubleshooter for the eastern Mediterranean region, recently concluding an agreement with Turkey by which the U.S. embargo on arms sales would be lifted in return for concessions by Turkey on Cyprus. He has also dealt with some even stickier problems: pushing the Panama Canal treaties, trying to convince Germany and Brazil that they should abandon a nuclear power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept...
...that Teng's purge is being extended to next echelon radicals. For the past two weeks, Peking's walls have been plastered with posters denouncing the so-called Mini-Gang of Four, consisting of Peking's mayor Wu Teh; General Ch'en Hsi-lien, the regional commander of the capital military district; Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region; and the late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four...