Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) began canvassing all Harvard undergraduates last night to encourage them to picket Massachusetts Hall this afternoon and to sign petitions urging the Harvard and Radcliffe Corporations to divest of their holdings in corporations and banks operating in South Africa...
Will the leaders of the next oil superpower be wearing sombreros instead of desert kaffiyehs? Mexico became a net exporter of petroleum in 1975 as a result of discoveries of big deposits in the southern regions east of Veracruz, and since then, one leading U.S. energy analyst says enviously, "the Mexicans have been finding oil as fast as they put holes in the ground." Last week Jorge Diaz Serrano, head of Pemex, the government oil monopoly, announced the discovery of a new field that he says may contain up to 100 billion bbl.; that would be more than half...
...liberal who argued that Green Berets were a superior and more enlightened alternative to Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln, confronted the nation with the "moral outrage" of the position of the black in society. He was a pragmatist who competed fiercely with the Soviets in the armaments race that he might parley with them from a position of strength...
...these Democratic defeats mean a Southern repudiation of the first President from the Deep South since the Civil War? Not really. But they do emphasize the birth of the two-party system in the once Solid South...
...most interesting aspects of this year's Southern elections, and the most encouraging for the Democrats, is the emergence of fresh faces. Perhaps the brightest new light is Arkansas' William Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar, who at 32 will be the nation's youngest Governor in 40 years. He worked on the McGovern and Carter campaigns and used his tenure as attorney general to fight for consumers. He is an anomaly for both Arkansas and 1978. He said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales...