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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King proved an aggressive campaigner who excited his friends and infuriated his enemies. Promising to stop state funding of abortion, re-institute capital punishment, and wage an all-out war against crime (three issues about which the governor can actually do very little), King called for a return to the good old days...

Author: By Hugh B. Doyle, | Title: A Very Bad Day for the GOP | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

Former South African newspaper editor Donald Woods yesterday told an audience of 40 freshmen that if Harvard is so immoral as to invest in South Africa it may as well try to "get a better financial return out of brothels and drugs...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Woods Talk Asks Freshmen to Fight South African Ties | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...visiting Nieman Fellow said that Harvard should "absolutely" return the money given to the Kennedy School by the Engelhard Foundation, whose fortune comes from the South African gold mines. Referring to Charles Engelhard and "others like him," Woods said, "The wealth of South Africa was skimmed off by people who exploited...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Woods Talk Asks Freshmen to Fight South African Ties | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

Readers of The New York Times yesterday celebrated the end of the New York newspaper strike with an enthusiasm usually reserved for the return of a long-lost relative...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Newsstands Sell Times Rapidly As Readers Hail End of Strike | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

Parts of it seem influenced heavily by Berry Hannah--great chunks of the theme could have been lifted from the story "Return to Return" in Hannah's latest collection Airships. And Pomeroy's insistent belief that Jesse James is his spiritual guardian corresponds closely to the outlaw Indian Geronimo in Hannah's Geronimo Rex. But this is McGuane's own, and nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

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