Word: week
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trademarks of an insurgent campaign: packed auditoriums at colleges and universities and sober talk about difficult issues. Calling for "a new order," California Governor Jerry Brown last week set forth on his most serious pre-campaign trip to date. For eleven days, through Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, he zeroed in on college campuses and local television stations. Brown was clearly out for grass-roots support. "I don't expect to have the endorsement of Governors, Senators and mayors," he admitted...
Indeed, some of those tremors have already been felt: 1) the five-week-long diplomatic wrangle with Moscow over the presence of a 2,600-man Soviet combat brigade in Cuba; 2) the Cuban-supported Sandinista revolution that overthrew Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle last summer; 3) the left-wing coup in Grenada last March, which replaced Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy with a socialist regime that established relations with Havana. There is worry in Washington that the Sandinista revolt could spill over into El Salvador and Guatemala, where repressive military regimes are struggling against leftist dissidents. Grenada...
...Caribbean and elsewhere, claimed Castro last week, "we are being very discreet and trying hard not to embarrass Carter." He made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame...
Undetected by hostile radarscopes, a flock of Blackbirds began flying at 85,000 ft. over the Caribbean last week, their sooty titanium skins glowing cherry red from air friction as they hit top speeds in excess of 2,000 m.p.h. The planes were Lockheed's needle-nosed SR-71s on strategic reconnaissance missions that President Carter has ordered to monitor Soviet military activity in Cuba...
...like a parade of zombies," TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark reported from Bangkok last week. "For those who witnessed the macabre march into Thailand, it was an unforgettable reminder that a nation is in its death throes. All of the refugees were clad in black, appropriately, for they are the walking dead. There was no imagining what horrors they had witnessed and survived, or perhaps even committed, since some of them are cadres of the ruthless and decimated Khmer Rouge army. After a few days of rest and replenishment in Thailand, they will probably have to return, lame...