Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially Carter, that had done most to fan interest and alarm over Cuba's role. When he delivered his policy address to the Jaycees, Vance did not even mention the subject. Instead, he proposed increasing U.S. "consultations" with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Angolan government, and spoke of "working with it in more normal ways." (Only two months ago, CIA Chief Stansfield Turner was talking about the possibility of arming anti-Marxist rebels to challenge the Neto regime.) According to Vance, such cooperation might even lead to a "reconciliation" between Zaire and Angola, both of whose regimes have...
...blatant violations of human rights hardly helped the cause of "cooperation" between Washington and Moscow, particularly since Carter had singled out Slepak by name as a cause for personal concern during his 1976 election campaign. What is more, when Carter spoke last week to a Washington gathering of 26 foreign ministers from the Organization of American States, the issue of human rights took up one-fourth of his 20-minute address. Though Carter was obviously referring to violations in Latin America, his warning that "there are costs to the flagrant disregard of international standards" was presumably meant to be heard...
...denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Many of them were delegates representing the denomination's more than 13 million members at a meeting to plan an ambitious campaign, which is backed by Carter, to proclaim the Christian message to everyone on earth by the year 2000. The President spoke quietly to his "brothers and sisters in Christ" about the role of faith in politics. Said he: "The great outward journey of our nation is based on an inward journey, the peace that issues from an inner strength of awareness of the will of God. We cannot proceed without...
...living near Cavendish, Vt., the Nobel prizewinning novelist attacked American democracy, whose restrictions have, in his view, ensured that "mediocrity triumphs. " He chided the U.S. for "a decline in courage," particularly "among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite"-a point that must have stung his audience. He spoke scathingly of America's intoxication with "habitual extreme safety and well-being "; its devotion to the letter of the law, which paralyzes the country's ability "to defend itself against the corrosion of evil"; the absorption of the Western press with "gossip, nonsense, vain talk...
...Wray, Visiting Professor of International Health and Maternal and Child Health, spoke May 25 on the effects of family size on the welfare of children. "I've found that often the bigger the family, the more the sickness, the worse the I.Q. and the less the nutrition," he said yesterday...