Word: anteing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect," as it comes to be called, looks like a freakish, sinister eclipse. It has no immediate impact on earth until Biologist Hubbs (Nigel Davenport) notices some strange behavior in the ant world. The ants start to do, as Mathematician Lesko (Michael Murphy) puts it, "things that ants don't do: meeting, communicating, making decisions...
...transfer of power has not made everyone happy, and Portugal's President António de Spínola, whose colleagues had overridden his pledge that independence would come only after a referendum in each territory, looked disgruntled as he signed the documents freeing Guinea-Bissau. In fact, he said not one word during the two-minute ceremony. He is so embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that...
...ruling Belgium, Britain, France, West Germany and Portugal were all less than one year old. In Italy, Premier Mariano Rumor headed a chronically unstable coalition (the 37th since 1943). The Labor Party of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson held only 298 of Parliament's 631 seats. Portuguese President António Spinola had no constitutional basis of power and held office at the pleasure of the group of young military officers who deposed the half-century-old dictatorship last spring. Belgium's coalition Cabinet was preoccupied by the linguistic differences that divide the country. West German Chancellor Helmut...
Though it sounds like the plot from the science fiction flick Them, in which giant ants threaten mankind, the green-ant menace is serious to the aborigines...
...long insects are already more than a picnic annoyance: they abound in the area, living in trees and leaping out to bite intruders. More important, the ants at Gabo Djang are believed by the aborigines to be descendants of the godlike Great Green Ant. They revere the great ant as one of the spiritual beings who established all the patterns of human life and can still influence them for good...