Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are the legacy of the Puritan's Covenant psychology, and they are a great source of the old American demon, absolutism. The movements epitomize one half of the national psyche, the Puritan conscience, and contend with the other half, democratic license. They take up, once again, the Puritan's...
> France and West Germany want a European Monetary System to control fluctuations of the Continent's currencies. Italy leans toward joining the EMS, while Britain still ponders the matter. The Premier flies to London for talks with Prime Minister James Callaghan. He persuasively argues that without Britain, the EMS...
Textiles. Still the biggest employer on the Continent (2.9 million workers), the textile industry has suffered the most. Over the past five years, at least 3,500 enterprises have been closed and more than half a million jobs lost. In Ghent alone, home of Belgium's cotton industry, unemployment levels...
Bernal landed an abundance of distance swimming talent, trolling the continent for high school All-Americans Phil Atkinson and Jack Gauthier as well as Canadian standout Chris Hancock.
But normalization should soon come. Fairy tales aside, the U.S. owes Vietnam much more than diplomatic relations. That should be the least it offers to a land it almost obliterated. And America, too, needs normalization beyond the practical, quantifiable gains of trade, new sources of oil, and regional stability. It...