Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness is his own record in the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War movements. Whether arguing the merits of nonviolent solutions in southern Africa or assuring his listeners that Carter's concern for human rights is for real, Young is able to draw on that background to speak persuasively and authoritatively...
Carter is by no means getting all he wants. His election-reform proposals are in a shambles; a filibuster by Republicans and Southern Democrats last week killed his bill for public financing of Senate elections. But a remarkable amount of his energy program is moving through Congress (see ENERGY). Carter also signed into law the first national strip-mining bill, which will compel operators to restore the landscape to approximately its original condition...
...Truman Balcony, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter sit, hands touching, side by side in their sturdy Georgia-made rocking chairs, like generations of Southern couples on countless porches of a summer evening. The twilight air is heavy, but the Carters, relaxing in blue jeans and sports clothes after the day's work, seem not to notice. "I like this balcony," muses the President, looking beyond the green sweep of the South Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here...
...1960s, federal courts invoked the First Amendment principles of free speech and free assembly to protect civil rights marches in some of the inflamed Southern cities. Despite wholesale threats of violence, the resulting demonstrations were peaceful, thanks to state and local police ordered in by the courts. But constitutional rights protected in Selma, Ala., in 1965 apparently cannot be secured in Chicago...
...decline is the expectation of abundant harvests, especially in Brazil, which produces one-third of the world's coffee. What sent prices up in the first place was a freak frost in 1975 that damaged more than half of Brazil's coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further decline in prices...