Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increasingly, Rosalynn Carter is indicating that she intends to play a substantive role in a Carter Administration. Asked who would handle the problems of the elderly, she replies emphatically, "I'm going to work with the elderly." She quickly ticks off programs she would work for: hot lunches, transportation for senior citizens, home maintenance...
...elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake Victoria...
...technological development, occurring in a country endowed with vast natural resources and an energetic labor force, created a prosperity that had never before been known. World War I confirmed the nation's status as a great power, and in World War II the United States played a decisive role in the defeat of fascism, while at the same time it consolidated its economic and military predominance...
...then, its role as a great power had paradoxically placed the country in the position of opposing its own historic origins and libertarian roots. In addition, the impressive progress of its economy had led to the creation of formidable nuclei of economic power, not subject to the constitutional controls imposed by the system on the civil Government, that endanger the workings of democracy at its very foundations...
...previously forbidden subject-the blacklisting of showfolk suspected of Communist leanings during the early '50s-and has the nerve, and grace, to take an absurdist view of that deplorable era. For that, and for Woody Allen's fine performance (against his usual comic grain) in the title role, it deserves respectful attention...