Word: africa
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Castro's dramatic return to the U.N., moreover, came at a time when Cuba is capturing unusual attention. In addition to its continuing military role as a Soviet proxy in Africa, it has lately become a source of renewed concern for American security in this hemisphere. The controversy over the Soviet brigade stationed on the island is only part of it. Equally perturbing is Cuba's role in the midst of the political unrest now brewing in the Caribbean, which has long ceased to be an "American lake." It is not "Havana's pond," either, but Cuba...
...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 for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...
...research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...
Cormack took the first step. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he became intrigued in 1956 by the difficulty doctors had in obtaining X-ray pictures of the brain. Because the cranium is so thick, they could make an X-ray beam "see" an abnormality only by injecting a patient with tracer dyes or air bubbles. When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts. Dividing this passage into cross-sectional slices, he found he could calculate the absorption...
Soni says his acceptance of the Harvard scholarship does not necessarily imply that he concurs with Harvard's policy toward its investments in corporations active in South Africa...