Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet Signal. There was a growing belief among Democrats in Congress Xhat for a time they must back the Administration's diplomatic and military policies to keep the Communists from misinterpreting congressional opposition as a sign of American weakness. Explained Liberal Democratic Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota: "It's very important to signal the Soviets that we're not moving into an isolationist period...
...Golden Gate Park under my pack. Its thin straps were already cutting into my shoulders and my sign that said "EAST" wasn't attracting too many rides. San Francisco had been a bad place to come to after leaving school in early October. I was getting out, leaving behind the violent hills that had screamed out of the earth in the quakes that threatened to push San Francisco into the Pacific, and I was going back home where the roads stretched between the corn fields and the small hills yawned...
...mountain. Snow fell for about an hour and I tried to light a fire under a bridge, but it didn't catch solid enough. A cowboy picked me up and left me at some cowboy exit: I was alone for too long. I scratched out an SOS sign, and after a few trucks ground by, a gold Cadillac slowed down but wouldn't let me near until I explained the sign. I guess I looked desperate, so they let me in a couple that was going straight to Chicago I didn't learn that the driver had been speeding...
...slowdown, a final revolt against the coerced labor Angola has exploited for hundreds of years. When slavery was finally abolsished in the 1870's, it was replaced with a labor code which allowed the government to force anyone who did not have a steady job--always Africans--to sign a six-month contract with employers who had asked the government for workers. Village life was destroyed since men weren't there for six months out of the year and were often shipped to other parts of Angola. In response to the world's disapproval over the past two decades...
Politically, the agreement is a sign that Europe has not abandoned Israel, despite its 70% dependence on oil from Arab lands and many indications that it was caving in (in 1973, for example, the Common Market drafted a strongly pro-Arab resolution embracing Cairo's arguments in cease-fire negotiations). Economically, the pact should help Israeli exports of oranges, chemicals and electronic products. As of July 1, Common Market tariffs on those and other Israeli goods will be lowered 40% to 80%; by mid-1977, there will be no tariffs on Israeli industrial exports...