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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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To make Shaba secure, Zaïre will need outside military assistance for its poorly organized and undisciplined 40,000-man army. The diplomatic question was how to provide it. After getting assurances that other moderate African states would help, Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to come to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Saving a Country from Itself | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

While the two superpowers were exchanging salvos, the leaders of 15 NATO nations were in Washington to talk about rapidly growing Soviet military forces. To offset the threat to Western Europe, the NATO summit gave final approval to a 15-year program that will substantially increase the alliance's defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week of Tough Talk: A Week of Tough Talk | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Harp playing may not help Kogan into heaven but it has already earned her a Rotary scholarship to study in the Royal Academy of Music in London next year. From London, the music major will cross the continent to spend part of the spring and summer in the Soviet Union...

Author: By Maxwell Gould. and Compiled ROBERT O. boorstin, S | Title: Plastics Ain't For Every Body | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

His inscription reads: Harvard honors his eloquence, acuity and respect for human rights, and salutes the achievements of a multi-racial democracy in a rapidly changing continent.

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Cuban Premier Fidel Castro may talk like an explorer, but he acts more like, well, a messianic leftist conquistador. Since he began a major airlift of troops to Angola three years ago, the bearded Communist dictator has expanded his country's military presence in Africa to ominous dimensions. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fidel Columbus and His Crew | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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