Word: bel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young officers of the Armed Forces Movement who engineered last April's revolution promised elections within a year-and last week they made good on that promise. From his desk in Lisbon's pink stucco Belém Palace, President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that the government had set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free elections in 49 years. The balloting for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, Costa Gomes said on TV, marked "a fundamental milestone" on the path to democracy. Cautioning voters against extremists of both the left...
...going out into the harbor to hawk souvenirs to passengers and crews. But when I came back this summer, I found my apartment, my shop and my boat all completely destroyed. Now all I can do is spread a few souvenirs on the street in front of the Bel-Air Hotel and sell a few things to United Nations soldiers. If they can only make peace and open the canal again.' It is the hope of everyone in Suez these days...
...ceremony came four years late, but last week Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn finally entered Stockholm's Concert House to accept the 1970 No bel Prize for Literature. "The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation have probably never had as much bother with anyone as they have had with me," said Solzhenitsyn at a Nobel ban quet. The laureate was kept from attending the 1970 ceremonies by fear that he would not be allowed to return to the Soviet Union. The prize, declared the bearded exile, "has prevented me from being crushed by the severe persecution to which I have...
Checked and approved by both her fans and rock peers, Joni Mitchell is fairly content. A close family relationship brings twice yearly visits back to Saskatoon. Since no concerts are scheduled for the present, she has plenty of time to finish decorating the 16-room Bel Air hacienda into which she settled last month with her current companion John Guerin, 35, a drummer...
FRANCIS WHITCRAFT Bel...