Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British Foreign Office said yesterday it will send $160.000 worth of medical and other supplies to the region in response to an aid request from Yugoslavia...
...Conqueror of the British Empire, I am prepared to die in defense of the motherland, Uganda." With his habitual bombast, Uganda's murderous President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada, 55, last week tried to put the best face on his disintegrating hold on national power. It was, apparently, a futile effort. After several days of sporadic fighting, the occupation force of largely Ugandan exile troops entered the outskirts of Kampala and prepared for a final push. Though scattered fighting still continued in pockets, the invading forces were poised to take control of Uganda's capital...
Enter a plucky upper-class Englishman. In the days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...
MARRIED. Rod Stewart, 34, roistering British rock star with a penchant for blonds, including Actress Britt Ekland, who sued him for more than $15 million after they separated; and Alana Collins Hamilton, 33, a blond actress divorced from Actor George Hamilton; he for the first time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills...
...amateur in Victor Canning's Birdcage (Morrow; 233 pages; $8.95) is a young ex-copper handling his first major assignment for British intelligence. In fact, he is made to walk two sides of the street, London's Birdcage Walk, home of a covert security operation. Kerslake, as he is called-when treating of the lower classes, the English seldom assign first names-is sent to Portugal to investigate Sarah Branton, who is most definitely U. Sarah has spent eight years in a nunnery and has been saved from a suicidal drowning attempt by Richard Farley, a charming drifter...