Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesian air force (1,300 men) makes do with a fleet of about 50 planes, many obsolete, and about 20 Alouette helicopters. Spare parts are such a luxury that when choppers are pockmarked by guerrilla small-arms fire, ground crews literally bandage damaged rotor blades with adhesive tape and send the helicopters back into...
...official opening of the country's first election campaign in 41 years, half a million political posters bloomed along the narrow streets and broad thoroughfares of Madrid. For the first time ever, politicians of all stripes, including the long-outlawed Communists, made campaign appearances last week over the air waves of the state-run television network, which had been created as an instrument of the Franco dictatorship. Across the country, nearly 6,000 candidates, vying for 557 parliamentary seats in the June 15 national election, took to the hustings to test the political preferences of people who for almost...
Castro's filmed remarks for Moyers end up as short segments in a remarkable two-hour documentary, The CIA'S Secret Army, to be aired Friday (9 p.m. E.D.T.). The army-more than 600 CIA staff officers and 2,000 Cuban exiles based in Miami-was secretly formed by John F. and Robert Kennedy a few weeks after the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Moyers. Its mission: to destroy the Cuban economy and assassinate Castro. Over the years, while the Miami police, the FBI and the Coast Guard looked the other way, tens of thousands...
CANCER. Some forms of cancer are caused by such natural factors as heredity and viruses. But many cancers are brought on-especially in the industrialized parts of the world-by environmental factors. As the U.N. report explains, the cancers "relate to the air people breathe or the water they drink, to the environment in which they work or live, to their personal diet or way of life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form...
...House of Burgesses; Patrick Henry conducted his late-night debates at the King's Arms Tavern by the flickering glow of candlelight. Today's visitors to Colonial Williamsburg explore the nation's oldest and most ambitious historical restoration in shuttle buses and relax in air-conditioned rooms with electric light. But the 20th century comforts carry an inflated modern price tag-and so, in Bicentennial 1976 of all years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs the restoration, suffered a $703,000 deficit, its first ever. More red ink threatens this year unless foundation officials can attract more...