Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballots to George McGovern, but only 52% of voting-age blacks went to the polls, compared with 65% of the whites. About 57% of the country's 15 million black adults are registered, v. 70% of the whites. Through registration drives in black neighborhoods, black leaders intend to sign up a million new voters and increase the black turnout to 60%-or 9 million in all. In this way, they hope to provide Carter's winning margin in the South as well as in some key industrial states and gain a bigger voice in his Administration...
...frail former President, Yun Po Sun, took the stand. "At the age of 78," he said, "my interest is not in making a political comeback, but only in seeing democracy restored in my country. The end of my life is drawing near every day without my seeing any sign of improvement at all in Korea." Outside the courtroom, the defendants' wives and friends gathered daily on a nearby street corner, wearing large crosses embroidered on their clothes...
...theory, Riggio has been injecting gamma globulin from human placentas, which are usually discarded after delivery, into patients at the hospital's Rogosin Kidney Center. He hopes that the placental extract will transfer blocking antibodies into them. That then might encourage acceptance of new organs. A positive sign: when Riggio examined long-term transplant survivors at the center, he found that their acceptance of kidney grafts somehow appeared to have been enhanced by a biochemical mechanism similar to that postulated in pregnant women...
South Africa provides practically all of Namibia's imports. And it will still control Walvis Bay, the only good port on Namibia's Atlantic coastline, which South Africa has held as a separate entity since 1910. Small wonder, then, that the new Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO guerrilla raids. More important from South Africa's viewpoint, they will preserve Namibia's status as a buffer to the north...
Brisk Escort. The networks trained their combined force of 84 cameras in and around the arena on almost anything that moved, including the delegate, late Tuesday night, who brandished a hand-lettered sign that read: JANET, ORDER ME TWO EGGS AND COFFEE. I'LL BE THERE IN 30 MINUTES. Then there was Delegate Dene Pace of Corinth, Miss., who told Mike Wallace on CBS that she had waited for "a vision from the Lord" before making up her mind, and that the Lord had just sent word-"Ford...