Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calculated to win to his cause any sizable new segment of voters. Everybody remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...
...legislators were determined to get home to campaign. In their impatience to end it all, they angrily refused to approve two of Lyndon Johnson's priority programs: a $1 billion project of federal aid to rejuvenate the economy of the Appalachian region and Social Security-financed medical care for the aged. Both plans had passed the Senate. Appalachia died because Democrats could not muster enough votes to get an authorization bill through the House. Medicare died in a Senate-House conference committee, mainly because of the opposition of House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills...
...Australians, who rule the region as part of their U.N. Trust Territory of New Guinea, first became aware of the "Johnson Cult" last February when thousands of islanders started refusing to pay their $8.43 annual head tax unless the money was placed in a special "Buy Johnson" fund. Before long, $2,475 had been collected for the purpose. But the Australians called it tax evasion and sent police and civilian officials scurrying to the jungle villages to get the money or the delinquents...
...trying to clarify the situation, and the Australians even pressed into service a nearby U.S. geodetic survey team to explain to the natives that President Lyndon Johnson was too busy and too far away to come out and operate their villages. Declared Australia's district commissioner for the region: "We will not rest until we have restored respect for law and order...
...Greek Cypriot stand? The Soviet ambassador in Ankara went out of his way to reassure Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu. Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe and Africa...