Word: sen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Land owning has been a particular problem for the Delta blacks. In Sunflower County-where the biggest land-owner is Sen. James Eastland (D.Miss.)-only 71 of the county's 31,000 blacks own any land...
...collection of poems on topics including the Charles River, Che Guevara, Robert Kennedy's death, and the Chicago Convention. The book is entered in the poetry category with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's The Secret Meaning of Things and Elizabeth Bishop's Completed Poems. One of the poetry judges will be Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn...
...long the big silver planes roared in over the Plain of Jars and touched down in a rooster tail of dust on the dirt strip at Lat Sen. There were Air America Caribous, C-123s and two four-engined C-130s borrowed from U.S. Air Force bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
...final flight carried out the last 26 refugees. In 1960 the plain had supported about 150,000 people. Now after a decade of constant if relatively low-level fighting, there are no civilians left. Lat Sen's houses are empty. Abandoned dogs, forming into packs, fight over the last few scraps of food...
...Senate committee approval President Nixon's second nominee for the court by a 13-4 margin. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy 154 (D-Mass.) joined three other Democrats in voting against Carswell...