Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love feast; as a committee member later put it, Lance was given a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." Having looked foolish in the past, the committee's members can be expected to treat Lance much less gingerly this time around. Chairman Ribicoff and the Southern Democrats apparently remain in Lance's corner, but Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits and John Heinz will likely be tough...
...grew closer partly out of their common religious convictions. Each, moreover, admired the way the other had risen spectacularly from a small Southern town. Some Carter associates believe the two probably share the feeling that some corners had to be cut in breaking out of their similar backgrounds. Among the legion of Georgians whom Carter has brought to Washington, Lance may well be the only crony with whom the President can kick off his shoes at the end of a bruising day and talk in total candor...
...Carter personality; hence Jimmy's almost defiant defense of an embattled aide. Others suggest a further element: simple geography, as with Jack Kennedy's Massachusetts (and Harvard) Mafia and Lyndon Johnson's Texas herd. Some black leaders note that Carter is more at ease with Southern blacks -as in the case of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young-than with any Northerners, black or white...
...southern Washington, Farmer-Rancher Monte Shaffer, 49, surveyed 2,000 acres of hilly farm land-one-third of his tillage. The fields should have been rippling with mature wheat; instead they were creased with furrows. Shaffer had plowed most of the land under when it produced nothing more than weed-choked stubble only a few inches tall. Land that only two years before had yielded 50 bu. of wheat an acre is yielding a mere 13 bu. this year. But Shaffer said: "I'm more concerned about the export situation than anything else. Until there's a bigger...
...main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending from the Golan to Sharm el Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai over the next 20 years...