Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bell, now a senior correspondent in Boston, went to Kenya in 1959 and was told by British colonial servants that Kenyatta was confined, or "rusticated" as they put it, near the Somali frontier. The militant Mau Mau leader was said to be a "hopeless alcoholic." A year later, Bell met Kenyatta in a village in northern Kenya. He was tall and dignified, and Bell remembers him manipulating a fly whisk with great style and grace. At first he spoke haltingly, "not because he was a gone alcoholic," Bell recalls, "but because he hadn't spoken English in seven years...
...eyes softened a little. "The British will see the error of their ways someday," he said...
...Derry accommodation began slowly with the termination in 1969 of the Protestant-controlled municipal corporation that administered the city. Four years later, after direct British rule had begun, Westminster set up elections for a new city council, whose 27 members are chosen on a one-man, one-vote basis. At first none of the three major factions?the Protestant Unionists, the Catholic Socialist Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) and the nonsectarian Alliance Party?won a clear-cut majority, and by common agreement the office of mayor alternated every year between Catholics and Protestants. Then last year, for the first time...
...foreign-exchange and gold markets may have to wait a very long time. Last week's trading was an example: though there was no special news to drive the dollar down, it sank to record lows against the yen, mark and Swiss franc, and also declined against the British pound, which bobbed briefly over $2 for the first time since 1976. Despite the later rally, at week's end the dollar had registered these drops just since mid-July: 7% against the yen, 3.5% against the mark, 10.5% against the Swiss franc, 3% against the pound. Says James...
...There's a void in the motion picture world for ... whatever this is," smiles the movie's Executive Producer Martin Starger, U.S. representative of British Producer Sir Lew Grade. Just what it will be is hard to pin down: maybe something like Punch and Judy done according to Mad Magazine...