Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plains peanut warehousing and processing business, which he took over and expanded after his father died in 1953, has been put up for sale. The man behind the move is Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, the close presidential adviser who manages Carter's assets under a blind trust. (The President will keep his 241-acre peanut farm.) Neither Brother Billy nor Mother Lillian, who own the remaining third of the business, wants to run the warehouse, which has been operated since September by Gold Kist Inc., an Atlanta-based farmers' cooperative...
...thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend was enough, then a press card, then an American accent. Today it is difficult to gain their trust...
...they insist on winning every minor point. There is endless haggling and bitterness. The atmosphere gets very tense over the nitpicking. The Soviets sometimes win the small point but lose the significant one. Still, it's a hell of a problem to turn them around. You can only trust them to pursue their own interests with great dedication any way they...
...days a week-campaigning for election to the Greek parliament. In 1974 Actress-Activist Mercouri was defeated as a Socialist candidate from Piraeus, which includes the red-light district in her 1960 film. Back on the hustings again, she is confident of victory this time. Says Mercouri, 52: "They trust me not as a star, but rather as a woman with dynamism who knows how to fight, how to go on strike. I want to be a thorn in parliament...
...surprise of the Brezhnev speech, however, was the Soviet leader's announcement that Moscow was now prepared to suspend its program of "peaceful" nuclear explosions, thereby paving the way for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban agreement covering both military and peaceful explosions. Declared Brezhnev: "We trust that this important step on the part of the U.S.S.R. is properly appreciated by our partners at the negotiations...