Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone welcomed Bermudez into the rebels' top political ranks. One Assembly delegate, in voting against Bermudez, scrawled "No military dictatorships" across his ballot. Seven regional commanders of the contras' southern front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...
...satellite photographs has led scientists to believe that algae can be conveyed around the world on ocean currents. The Carolinas algae, which had previously been confined to the Gulf of Mexico, apparently drifted to Atlantic shores by way of the Gulf Stream. One species that is native to Southern California is thought to have been carried to Spain in the ballast water of freighters...
...city and hear the Berkshire Mountain Boys, Beat Acker and the Billings Gap, Southern Rail and other groups sing the songs of the Appalachians along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border at the second annual Birch Hill Bluegrass Festival. A weekend pass includes two days of fiddle tunes, knee slapping music and camping space and can be purchased for $20. Admision Saturday only is $11 and after 6 p.m. is $5. Children get in free when accompanied by an adult. Sunday the admission price is $9. Hours Saturday are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from...
...would not be surprising if Bush picked up on the Southern strategy. However, there aren't too many Southerners that Bush can choose from. But there are a couple of names that are prominent in the South: Reagan's former Chief of Staff Howard Baker and former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole...
...Republicans will have to match the Democrats with a Southern strategy before and after the their convention next month. If the Republicans are able to maintain their popularity with the Southern voters, Dukakis would have to change his vice-presidential selection to Robert. E. Lee to have a chance...