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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pending transition of power in Salisbury raises profound questions about the future of South Africa, where unrest in the black urban townships has continued sporadically since June; last week racial violence spread to downtown Johannesburg for the first time. In Rhodesia, the immediate question is whether the rival black factions can get together to help form a government. At present there are at least six candidates for the leadership of an independent Zimbabwe, as African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith...
...poll's more suprising findings is the extent to which feminist ideas have spread, Orren said yesterday. The poll shows that America's youth and feminist leaders most strongly support feminist goals but that in general slightly more men than women support careers for women...
Much has been changed by technology-notably the spread of the television set and the air conditioner. The South, nourished in isolation, now imports and exports ideas with the speed of electrons. The gospel songs that were once chanted by pentecostal choirs have gone commercial. Conversely, the South has seen the old enemy, the dreaded Yankees, up close on the evening news -and found that he and she are people very much like the folks from Dixie, only with a little more use for r at the end of a sentence...
WATER HYACINTHS. Introduced into New Orleans from Venezuela a century ago, these floating, flowering plants have spread to many Southern states. In some areas, they have clogged shallow rivers and lakes and killed fish by extracting oxygen from the water. They have even drowned a few humans who have become entangled in their island-like mats of vegetation...
Nonfarm income in Texas is about 13 times greater than farm income, but agriculture plays an important role for the state's 12.2 million people, who are spread over 171 million acres. Besides leading in cattle production, Texas outpaces all other states in lambs, goats, grain sorghum, cotton, watermelons, cabbage and spinach. It also vies with Louisiana as the biggest U.S. rice grower...