Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Europeans find New York City's problems hard to understand because they cannot imagine a national government on the Continent allowing one of its major cities to go bankrupt. Amid the puzzlement, however, Europeans were deeply disquieted as they read of President Ford's New York policy.
The death of Franco will end an epoch for both Spain and Europe. Long the Continent's most reviled pariah, Franco was a haunting, living reminder that the West had failed to act decisively during the Spanish Civil War, when the forces of Communism, Fascism and democracy confronted each...
ON CREATING DEMOCRACY ON THE CONTINENT: If you buy coffee for a given price and the following year you pay one-tenth of the price, and at the same time you double the price of the goods you are selling back, you are creating conditions of poverty and tension that...
But the recent changes in South Africa's attitude toward its black neighbors are only a whitewash. They reflect the increasing instability of the apartheid rule, and South Africa's increasing isolation on the continent. If the white South Africans wish to avoid a bloodbath, they will have to begin...
Despite mounting discontent with his leadership, General Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's unhinged head of state, rumbles on. In order to dramatize his offer to lead Egyptian troops against Israel, Big Daddy has now promised to swim the Suez Canal. Widthwise, of course. For all his alleged aquanautical ability...