Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honest. Smith left the meeting looking pale and angry. He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way. Though it seems hard to imagine, Smith is a moderate by Rhodesian standards, and at Umtali he faced a right-wing revolt led by Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded...
...Soon Smith was on his way back to South Africa for a Saturday rugby match -and, as it turned out, the meeting he wanted with Henry Kissinger. Previously, the Secretary had said he would talk to Smith only if he were assured in advance of "major progress." In the end, he agreed to a Sunday morning meeting in order to sustain the momentum of his mission...
Young Converts. Smith is concerned that racial inequities are now being overlooked because the more blatant signs of discrimination are past. "Whites simply don't pay much attention to blacks," he observes. He himself is assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School (the first black in the seminary's administration), but he notes that "it is difficult to get seminaries to take into account that black Christians existed and do exist." Smith is disappointed that some young blacks have become converts to other religions-the Black Muslims, for instance. Still, he believes that in the South the number...
...Smith sums up: "The church is still the dominant agency for black interests. You can be sure that in a crisis the phone will ring. All members of the black community do not belong to the church, but the church belongs to all the community. And everybody knows...
...status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World War II and still has a stiff right thumb from machine-gun wounds suffered on Guam. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School in 1948, he opened an office in Tuscumbia...