Word: states
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...state correctly: "U.S. forces landed there in 1898 to help the Cubans overthrow their Spanish rulers, and stayed for good." But then you say: "The U.S. controls Guantanamo Bay ... under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903." No one, most Americans will agree, "negotiates" perpetual leases allowing foreign military bases on lome territory. Cubans were robbed of their revolution and denied self-determination, sadly, by the largest "democracy" at the time...
...weekend combines politics with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax laws. The delegates listen to a parade of speakers decry Communism, Zionism, U.S. foreign policy, Big Government, and politicians who ignore their constituents...
...campaign fortunes will almost surely seesaw. Both Carter and Kennedy may at times look unbeatable, then be beaten. After New England come primaries in which Carter now appears to be invincible: Florida, Alabama and Georgia. In these states, as in most of the old Confederacy, Kennedy is about as popular as cold grits. Says Richard Dick, a high Virginia Democrat: "Kennedy's coattails in this state would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift...
...both rivals is heavy and direct, and some Democratic politicians try to please both. As Kennedy left the Senate floor one day, a well-known Democrat who has already announced his support for Carter beckoned the Senator aside. The Democrat passed Kennedy a list of people in his home state who might help him campaign. Said Kennedy: "He's playing both sides. There's a lot of that. People are staying loose...
...Florida, TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks was interviewing State Comptroller Gerald Lewis about Kennedy. Reports Stacks: "Soon it was clear that he was not just talking about Ted Kennedy but about John Kennedy and Bob Kennedy and Camelot and the antiwar movement and God knows what other half-remembered moments of modern Democratic politics. Had he ever met Ted Kennedy? 'No, I haven't,' he answered, and it made no difference to him that this is a different Kennedy...