Word: sub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa works to impede African nationalism both by perpetuating apartheid in South Africa and spurning investment in the black countries of Africa. Although American businessmen don't seem to share the State Department's fear that the firm repression of this nationalism can only lead to disaster for all sub-Saharan countries, they nevertheless have found increasing need to defend and cover-up the policies which lead to their highly profitable business operation in South Africa...
...Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits larger autos to a dollar's worth. Says Hunt: "I give them just enough to get them off the road. Those big gas gulpers are the ones doing the damage...
Thomas G. McKinley '74, sub-committee chairmen, declined yesterday to release any of the names under consideration...
...United States, the United Nations, Common Market countries and religious organizations have shipped "plenty of food, probably as much as is necessary" to the six stricken African nations. "The problem now is to reach the distant nomadic peoples who haven't been driven to the cities out of the sub-Sahara...
Miss Woods' cruel working hours and scant personal life have gradually been rewarded with increased responsibilities, a staff of her own (three sub-secretaries work in her office) and occasionally a chance to influence the thinking of the President. Nixon is said to regard her as a shrewd judge of politics...