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Article: AMY STANDS UP TO BE COUNTED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 19, 1987
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I have not spent a great deal of time these last six years musing
on the dinner table conversation of the J. Carter household in
Plains, Ga., but the acquittal last week of Amy Carter in the CIA
protest case turned me in that direction.
"Jimmeh, did I tell you that Amy called today?"
"No, Rosalynn, you didn't. How's everything up at Brown?"
"She wasn't at school, dear. She was on some kind of field
trip to the University of Massachusetts."
"Ummm, Massachusetts. Not mah favorite state."
"Yes, dear, I know. But Amy felt she had to go. There was
some kind of protest against a CIA recruiter on campus. Amy and
some friends tried to stop it."
"What do you mean, 'Tried to stop ...