Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently denounced, as were the Muzorewa government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the white rulers of South Africa. Perhaps the worst punishment was reserved for Egypt, which Castro had excoriated in his keynote speech for "betraying the Arab cause" by signing the Camp David accord. When Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali vainly sought to defend his government, he was met by a flood of invective from the other Arab delegations. Even Jordan's King Hussein joined with his old adversary, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, in lambasting Anwar Sadat's "unilateral dealing with Israel...
...Florida, for example, a 43-member Kennedy committee has been at work since May. It has a full-time staff of eight salaried members, claims 100 full-time volunteers, has raised $50,000 and created organizations in 51 of the state's 67 counties. The committee is headed by Political Veterans Mike Abrams and Sergio Bendixen, who were early Carter work ers in 1975. Insists Abrams about Kennedy: "There's no doubt in our minds that he's running...
...state of mind of Louisiana Senator Russell Long will be critical too. The White House feels he will help it get an oil windfall profits tax by Thanksgiving. Long has muttered privately that it will not be that easy and it will not be that quick. His message will arrive with the Christmas carols...
...diplomatic corps waits in anticipation. One Soviet official has declared that we cannot long linger in our current state of being neither hostile nor friendly to each other. America's response to SALT and now to Soviet troops in Cuba could set the direction for the new decade's foreign developments. Intelligence officers still believe the Persian Gulf to be a volatile place, but they have now added the Caribbean to their worries, some privately predicting a "Castro government" in Nicaragua by Christmas...
...loudest cry of alarm came from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Brussels, where he chaired a three-day conference of 100 Western political and military experts that was sponsored by Georgetown University on the theme "NATO: The Next 30 Years." In an extemporaneous speech remarkable for its passion, Kissinger warned that the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Europe is fast losing credibility in face of the Soviets' military buildup in general and their nuclear versatility in particular. The Soviet Union's improving and multifaceted nuclear capacity, he said, not only is making it increasingly difficult...