Word: amfitheatrofs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...
When Rome Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof went back-stage at the Stadt Casino in Basel to seek out Mstislav Rostropovich, this week's cover subject, the famous Russian cellist-conductor gave him a joyous greeting. "My uncle Massimo is a concert cellist," says Amfitheatrof, "and when I introduced myself to Rostropovich, he cried, 'Your face is like Mass-eemo, and Mass-eemo is my dear friend.' It was an invitation to the extraordinary warmth that pours from Rostropovich like lava from some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story...
...Katangese are skillfully using classic guerrilla tactics-infiltration and surprise, cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof from Kinshasa. According to sources, by the time Zaire's barrel-chested General Bumba Moaso Djogi arrayed his 2,000 troops and a small contingent of armor west of Mutshatsha, Katangese vanguards were already slipping past his lines...
...insurgents were reported to be in control of the town of Mutshatsha, a staging area for Mobutu's forces some 70 miles from Zaïre's rich copper belt. Officials denied it, but speculation mounted that the town had indeed fallen, cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof when the government suddenly cancelled a flight there for journalists...
Pope's best weapons. So far, few have delivered direct pulpit orders to their flocks to vote D.C., as many did in Pius' day. But as Franco Sasso, a parish priest in the southern town of Molfetta, indicated last week to TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, he would quietly remind parishioners, "When you make your choice, you must be consistent with your faith...