Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuts. The setting for the gathering was a world apart from the now familiar rusticity of Plains: Musgrove Plantation, an 1,800-acre estate on St. Simons Island, just off the Georgia coast. The opulent spread is owned by Smith Bagley, an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune and a longtime friend of the President-elect. Carter has been there before, and, as in the past, he observed the political propriety of paying Bagley $300 a day. Most of the entourage stayed at the Cloister Hotel on nearby Sea Island (their bills, like Carter's, were paid from...
...when the bloodiest racial demonstrations in South African history shook the country. Back then it was Soweto, the huge (pop. 1.2 million), black suburb of Johannesburg, that erupted. The violence there, touched off by black anger over the forced use of the whites' Afrikaans language in black school instruction, spread rapidly. Since then, effective political power in Soweto, as well as some other black enclaves, has migrated to an underground organization of several hundred young blacks, known as the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Last month the SSRC declared a ban on all Christmas celebrations to commemorate those who died...
...storm-tossed waters off Massachusetts last week, 7.6 million gal. of oil slid slowly seaward. In the Delaware River, southwest of Philadelphia, 134,000 more gal. of deadly goo spread toward rich tidal marshes. In Los Angeles, the wreck of a blast-shattered tanker still lay smoldering at its berth. Suddenly, on East Coast and West, the U.S. was undergoing an ordeal...
...precedents spread with the speed of earthquake tremors. The validating of the Nonintercourse Act cracked open a floodgate that had bottled up dozens of similar Indian land suits. Last month, descendants of the 90 Wampanoag Indians who provided five deer for the first Thanksgiving feast in Plymouth contested the ownership of the entire town of Mashpee, Mass., a total of 16,000 acres of developed and undeveloped land. Within days, real estate sales stopped, building came to a halt, and supermarket sales plummeted as buyers wondered whether the courts would allow them to keep items purchased within city limits. Officials...
...Sanders said that Health Manpower Act, which takes effect July 1, 1977, will end Mass General's tradition of training foreign physicians who later return to their countries to spread U.S. medical knowledge...