Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the Olympic roster is rather heavily studded with East Coast oarsmen--Chad Rudolph and Chuck Ruthford, who will not row in the eight, are the only men from West of the Mississippi River. Both rowed for Washington, a poreanial national rowing power...
Other Africans besides Amin are also beholden to Gaddafi. Libya is arming and training Moslem separatists in neighboring Chad and sending weapons to Eritrean rebels fighting Haile Selassie ("a lackey of Israel"). It has supplied guns to Guinea and money to Upper Volta, Mauritania and Niger. Libya also provides yearly subsidies of $125 million to Egypt and $45 million to Syria, with which it is joined in a new Federation of Arab Republics, and is a principal financial angel of the Palestinian guerrilla movement. More than 300 Libyan soldiers are serving with the fedayeen; five of them were killed...
...advantage of being the leading candidate from Africa, which has 42 votes in the Assembly, but the disadvantage of not being stationed at the U.N. during the last-minute lobbying. Indeed, as of last week, two other Africans had put themselves forward as prospects-Issoufou S. Djermakoye of remote Chad, and Nsanze Terence of tiny Burundi...
...American proposal when it's not clear how far the U.S. itself is going to stick its neck out." Even Australia and New Zealand refused to co-sponsor the U.S. resolution, and at week's end the dismal list of co-sponsors included only the Philippines, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras and Swaziland. The plain fact is that unless the Japanese government changes its mind following a Cabinet meeting this week, Taipei will almost certainly be expelled when the issue reaches the blue-and-gold chamber of the General Assembly, probably no sooner than mid-October...
...flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad who did not even know the sea was salt. The only real sailor on board was a New York building contractor named Norman Baker, an old Navyman...