Word: agostine
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...Soviet Union. In Moscow, Tass declared that "external forces" were interfering in "the internal struggle in Zaire." Even as the Western powers were afraid that the fighting would topple Mobutu, the Soviets were apparently worried that a strong Zaire counterattack might weaken the shaky government of President Agostin-ho Neto in Angola, which still faces resistance from the UNITA forces of Jonas Savimbi (TIME, Jan. 17). For that matter, Mobutu was also eager to describe the war in East-West terms. After neighboring Zambia complained that a mission hospital near the border had been hit by Zairian planes, Mobutu accused...
...Count. The founding father of the California wine industry was a wandering Hungarian named Agostin Haraszthy, who appeared in San Diego one day in 1849. California wine was then largely made from the sweet, heavy purple grape brought from Spain by the Franciscan monks. "The Count,'' as Haraszthy was called, did not like it. He persuaded the legislature that the state's wine needed improvement, and in 1861, he took off for Europe, returned with 200,000 cuttings of Europe's finest vines-a favor that California later returned...
...grapes. Before Jan. 1, 1920, California was making 40,000,000 gallons of wine a year and California wines were being drunk in London. Wine had been made in California missions since 1769 but it began to be taken seriously only when Hungarian Count Agostin Haraszthy imported cuttings of about 500 kinds of European grapes in the 1860s...
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