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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many other African leaders, even if not directly worried about Soviet ambitions, are sensitive to any tampering with ancient colonial boundaries, since their own frontiers are often equally arbitrary and insecure. As for the Chinese, they automatically supported Mobutu because he was under attack by Soviet-backed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: A Little Help from His Friends | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...nuclear-power plants. The protesters were an improbable mix: elegant members of the Italian nobility, radical students in American Indian garb, middle-class citizens and Christian Democratic and Communist politicians. They were determined to halt construction of the 2,000-megawatt nuclear complex that would be built near an ancient Etruscan cemetery. Other protests have been held at the sites of 18 additional reactors that are planned for completion in Italy in the next decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Crusading Against the Atom | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...irritable, then lethargic and sleepy. When they try to walk, they are likely to stumble about with a peculiar shuffling gait. Soon they can no longer stand, sit erect or even eat; often they fall into a coma and die. Their illness is African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis -an ancient scourge that afflicts at least 10,000 people a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On the Track of a Shifty Bug | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson front line of Martin, MacKenzie, and freshman Pete Predun had burned the team's first seven foes for 48 goals and 90 points, but that was ancient history as far as Cornell was concerned...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Radcliffe Romps, Harvard Sees Red in Lax Action | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Hali was written in 1950 by G.V. Desani in India. The drama is set in ancient India, and centers around a sort of demi-god, Hali(Steve Bonsey). The play is derived from a novel, but the tale is not unravelled through dialogue and conventional blocking. Rather, Hali tells his story to the audience with the help of a narrator, and as he talks dancers and players sweep onto the stage and act out many of the adventures around him and with him. The music consists of nothing but a very primitive recorder and a drum, but along with...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Drama for the Senses | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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