Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well have used wire reports from Memphis, but for some reason wanted a man on the spot. I boarded the bus with a typewriter in one hand and a bag in the other, to be greeted by the trip leader, a 45-year-old widow who hadn't left western Massachusetts since the early '60s. She invited me to sit down next to her. I obliged, and as the bus pulled out she revealed to me a secret stash of Cokes, cheese twists, bananas and Twinkies she had brought to eat during the 24-hour ride to Tennessee. Then...
...strike, and the National Guard was patrolling the city in jeeps. In Washington, the House Assassinations Committee was hearing testimony on the 1968 slaying in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Into Memphis on August 15 rode the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour out of Connecticut and western Massachusetts, uninterested in anything but the visiting hours at Graceland and the lengths of the waiting lines there. The leader of the policemen's union had threatened to shut the city down in the contract dispute, but no one on the bus had any second thoughts about going...
Vorster also announced that South Africa has rejected Western diplomatic efforts to mediate a transition to independence for Namibia, the South-West Africa territory South Africa has occupied in defiance of U.N. rulings since...
...committee of diplomats from the five Western powers on the U.N. Security Council in July negotiated a tentative plan for U.N.-supervised independence elections between South Africa and the South West Africa People's Organization, the Namibian freedom-fighting group that has led the struggle for Namibian independence for the past 12 years...
Reading from a prepared statement, Vorster said yesterday, "The South African government does not wish to close doors" to further negotiations with the United Nations and the western powers on the Namibia question...