Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easygoing Campbell worked as a lineman for Southern Bell Telephone Co. and a tractor dealer, then joined the Calhoun bank in 1968. He rose to vice president in three years. But Campbell apparently found his $18,000 salary inadequate. Beginning in 1971, he began diverting bank funds to his own use, pumping the money mainly into a 460-acre Angus cattle ranch he bought near Calhoun. His main technique, curiously risky in such a small town, was to take out loans in the names of other people and even a local church He filed all the proper papers, then pocketed...
...foreign policy, which has run into snags in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed North and the underdeveloped southern portion of the globe. The Panama Canal treaty, he feels, is the key to establishing better relations with the South. As Costa Rican President Daniel Oduber told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Carter has raised much hope. He has rediscovered what has been there all along: we like you norteamericanos...
...generally agree with the David Owen-Andrew Young approach to the problems of southern Africa...
...fact maintained security, and we believe they would serve any new government that had properly been elected, obviously with black Rhodesians having their full chance to vote. So it would be most unwise to disband them. Beyond that, I do believe we have to regard a threat to southern Africa very seriously. After all, in the U.S. you're almost self-sufficient in your main raw materials. We are very far from being self-sufficient. We have to get many of our strategic materials from southern Africa. There is no major source for chrome other than southern Africa, apart...
...Erotic Adventures of Casanova was the feature attraction at three southern California moviehouses on Aug. 22, according to the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,021,000), while Jail Bait was at eight more local theaters. The next day those cinematic classics were still packing them in, but without benefit of the Times. The paper had become the latest and largest U.S. daily to close its pages to display advertising for pornographic films...