Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAINT FRANCOIS, Guadeloupe--The crisis in Iran was the main topic of discussion as President Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gathered yesterday on the Caribbean island for a two-day summit conference...
Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia). Roundhouse riffs soldered onto diabolical lyrics by a sardonic British rocker...
...Chinese went to the Swedes for cooperation in mining, railroads and telecommunications, to the British for $315 million worth of coal-mining equipment, to the Danes for help in improving Shanghai and other ports. They browsed in Sweden, France and England for modern weaponry with which to rearm their badly equipped military forces. They will probably make only a few selective purchases at first, because of their shortage of capital. Chinese and Americans kept up brisk negotiations. Coastal States Gas Corp., a U.S. firm, agreed to buy 3.6 million bbl. of Chinese crude, the first shipment to arrive early this...
...night at my house." Then she clambered onto a table and waited for the police. Before they led Mrs. Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail, where thousands of her political opponents were locked up during her 21-month emergency dictatorship, she recited a version of a British show tune: "Wish me luck as you bid me goodbye/ With a cheer, not a tear in your eye/ Give me a smile I can keep all the while I am away...
...somber granite monument to South Africa's Boer pioneers near Pretoria, at Krugersdorp where the Boers defied the British and re-established their republic, and at other sites across the nation, white Afrikaners gathered to mark the Day of the Covenant, their Thanksgiving. It was on Dec. 16, 1838, that 470 Afrikaner farmers fought off a raid by 15,000 Zulu warriors, killing 3,000 of the attackers without losing any of their own number. On the eve of the battle, the Afrikaners vowed that if God granted them victory they would ever after commemorate...