Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryant's legions have been equally active. The Save Our Children coalition attracted some 10,000 people to the Miami Beach Convention Hall last month for a "God and Decency Rally." More than $140,000 has been raised in contributions, some from as far away as Southern California and Texas. Florida Governor Reubin Askew is supporting the movement. Orthodox Jews and the Catholic hierarchy, concerned about their private schools, have come out firmly against the ordinance. The Rev. F. William Chapman, pastor of Bryant's church, insists he would burn down his parochial school "rather than permit...
...Britain and the U.S. continue to press Prime Minister Ian Smith's regime in Rhodesia toward accepting black majority rule, "Smithy" lashed out at nationalist guerrillas operating from across the border in Mozambique. The incident could further diminish the chances of a settlement and inflame the situation in southern Africa...
...said the Southern nations. They repeated some of their wildly unrealistic demands, made at the start of the North-South dialogue 18 months ago, involving a "new international economic order" that would bring about a fundamental, massive transfer of wealth from North to South. The developing nations also demanded debt relief on the $180 billion they owe to industrial nations and an indexing of oil and commodity prices...
...delegates from the OPEC nations, including Iran's tough Oil Minister, Jamshid Amouzegar, rejected even the modest proposal for continuing energy discussions, which OPEC fears would reduce its power to control oil prices and supplies unilaterally. At the same time, the Southern nations refused to offer safeguards against nationalization of the North's investments. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who was in a group of congressional observers at the conference, chided the Southern nations for their rigidity and urged them to think in terms not only of government aid but also of investment, business...
...student and football star, Powell followed a deep Southern tradition by deciding on a military career. In 1961 he was admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, only to be expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree...