Word: weltner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who won last fall didn't do it by talking about the new South," Weltner said, "but because they were expressing dissatisfaction with government institutions. The results of those elections bespeak a sense of frustration over national institutions...
...Weltner blames his defeat in 1968 on an inability to appeal to this frustration, and compares his campaign to the one for governor run last year by millionaire Carl Sanders, who had the slickest, most professional campaign ever run in Georgia. "I ran exactly that type of campaign," Weltner said. That old JFK rhetoric, still. It didn't sell and it shouldn...
...sense of frustration is evident in Weltner's voice when he talks about the future of Southern politics. He has little faith in the effects that increased black voter registration will have ("They go from 5 per cent of the electorate to 34 per cent, and then the whites win by 66 per cent instead of 95 per cent.") or of efforts to rebuild the Democratic Party...
...Weltner's opposition to the Vietnam war was the main reason he took on the case of Sgt. Torres. "I felt there was a possibility to raise some issues about the war," Weltner said. "And there was the basic question of the hypocrisy of trying a teenage soldier for death and destruction plotted not by the soldier but by the highest U. S. officials...
...case was dismissed by an army court in January after Weltner had succeeded in serving subpoenas on three OIA agents who had operated in the Song My vicinity. Several CIA officials had suddenly appeared in Atlanta one day to protest the way Weltner had been attacking the intelligence agency in his defense of Torres...