Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panther Bobby Scale, originally the eighth member and now a touring lecturer at $1,500 a shot, did not shout interruptions or end up in handcuffs, however. In stead, the only disturbances at the mock trial in Manhattan's Felt Forum last week, written by Candy Author Terry Southern, came from rock bands, nostalgic slide shows of the '60s, impersonators of Richard Nixon and Judge Julius Hoffman and a re-enactment of the Chicago riots, complete with imitation tear gas. The most notable presence was that of the man who wasn't there-or was he?-Abbie...
This spring, the principal groups active in the anti-apartheid demonstrations included the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialists, and four campus minority organizations. Several minority organizations, especially the Black Students' Association, had already built effective systems for dealing with major political issues; SASC, though a relatively young group, quickly developed workable organizing techniques...
Memphis, summer 1978. A steamy day in the pleasant but tired Southern town, nestled in a bend of the Mississippi, that gave America the blues, W.C. Handy and Beale Street, Holiday Inns and Piggly Wiggly supermarkets. And Elvis Presley...
Moscow's misgivings were aroused by Peking's transparent attempt to present itself as an alternative to the Soviets in the squabbling Communist camp. Certainly Hua's choice of three countries situated on the Soviet Union's southern flank did nothing to quell Russian suspicions. For its part, China has been equally worried about Soviet expansionism in Asia, as well as in the Horn of Africa and South Yemen. Peking, in short, was anxious to cultivate friends who would be effective in helping to halt the tide of what it calls Soviet "hegemony...
...they remembered it. He sent a 27-member delegation to Guzmán's inauguration. Heading the group were Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. But the most important symbolic presence was that of Lieut. General Dennis McAuliffe, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command based in the Panama Canal Zone. He was dispatched to Santo Domingo as a reminder to the Dominican generals, who have little love for Guzmán, that the U.S. supported his election and expected them to do the same...