Word: continentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite an abortive coup last year, Mobutu remains unchallenged in his control over both the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), Zaïre's only legal political party, and the country. In a rare interview, Mobutu spoke with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter at his spacious villa, which looks...
More seriously, in the space of two centuries, 13 colonies in revolt became the foremost world power after spreading over a whole continent, absorbing and melding refugees from all nations and transforming them into genuine Americans. This prodigious epic unfolded in liberty and through liberty. It was rooted in a...
While much of black Africa welcomed Henry Kissinger's forthright declarations of support during his visit to the continent, there were increasing signs last week that the Secretary's denunciations of Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia had merely stiffened its resolve to settle the...
On April 22, Pinochet and Uruguay's president Bordaberry met in Montevideo and after haranguing the "international communist conspiracy" presumably discussed the free exchange of leftist exiles throughout the continent. Videla's regime completes the fascist bloc which now covers virtually all of South America. Among these nations there is...
...long, NASA has placed aboard it two stainless-steel sheets, each etched with a message conceived by Astrophysicist Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Designed to inform extraterrestrial visitors or future inhabitants of the earth about the LAGEOS mission, the message shows three maps of the earth, depicting the continental drift that the satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet as it exists today and indicates the satellite...