Word: born
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement appears imminent, the debate in the capital is obsessive, pushing aside economics for the moment, as if the nation's historic rise or decline depended on it. A few will tell you that is the case. The political eddies from SALT I and now the near born SALT II have altered old alliances, and thrown this town into confusion...
...still has faith that black rule will eventually mean more land for blacks, who can no longer support themselves on their inherited parcels of worn-out acreage. "When I was born, the land was still good," he says. "There were trees and grass. Now there are just a few trees. We have used them for houses and firewood. We used to feed a family from one acre and sell what we grew on the other five acres in the market. Now it takes five acres to feed a family, and the remaining land does not produce enough to buy clothing...
...somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive with one of his sons. A businessman readily gave them $400 to $500 at a time, but one day they stopped his car and blew his head away. They...
...beefy ex-dictator's exact location was uncertain, the second most wanted figure in Big Daddy's reign of terror turned up fairly quickly: Robert Astles, a white, British-born onetime road-construction foreman who advised Amin on the uses of repression as well as on his public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau...
...Chinese. A leading Hong Kong businessman, having returned from a tour of mainland factories, estimates that a Chinese factory as a whole is only one-seventh as efficient as one in Hong Kong. The general bullishness is summed up by Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, 79, a Hong Kong-born multimillionaire, who is negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province. As he gazes out at Hong Kong's beautiful harbor, he asks: "Is there any place on earth where the future looks brighter than...