Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"We're just sitting on our asses," Jimmy Carter barked into his Oval Office telephone. On the receiving end, Vice President Walter Mondale listened patiently. Though both men had been in their jobs for less than three months at the time, the President was irate that few new U.S...
Hard Hit. All three networks were back on the air within six to eleven minutes after they had been blacked out. At CBS and NBC, emergency power systems atop the Empire State Building were quickly activated. ABC, lacking such a system, had to switch its broadcast feed clear across the...
Still, all this is very far from the image of Utopia that was so seductive in the '60s and early '70s. Perhaps the pursuit of Utopia has become small bore everywhere, concentrating on traffic control, garbage compactors and the blessed ability to breathe even half-clean air. The...
For most of its 14-year existence, the Organization of African Unity has belied its grand title. Last week representatives from 48 of the OAU'S 49 member nations gathered for their four-day annual exercise in disharmony at a spanking-new conference center in Libreville, the sleepy seaside...
Soviet Intervention. Back at Libreville, what was notably missing from the OAU summit was the customary volume of anti-West rhetoric. In a stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only...