Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonquils bloomed across Britain last February, and there was snow in Edinburgh in June. Thus it should have come as no surprise that this summer London (at 90°) was hotter than Casablanca. So, for that matter, was the rest of Europe, as the Continent suffered through the ninth straight...
So the appeal lies elsewhere, in the New Mexico air, which I suppose people respond to for the same reasons people respond to all rambling songs, under-the-canopled-sky songs, exotic marijuana music. In a lazy Mexican town people just smoke up all day, and it sure is as...
The troika of generals that has just assumed unlimited power in Lisbon could well transform Portugal into Western Europe's first Communist nation. It might be an orthodox Marxist state, as envisaged by one of the Continent's few remaining Stalinist Communist Party bosses, Alvaro Cunhal. It might...
With that Shakespearean shrug and a gracious pledge of loyalty to the new regime, Nigeria's "gentle soldier," Major General Yakubu Gowon, philosophically acquiesced to a bloodless palace coup that last week ousted him as his country's head of state. Gowon, who himself came to power following...
Brutal Actions. Traditionally, the rotating OAU chairmanship honors the leader of the host nation for each year's summit. Perhaps fearing the worst, moderate African leaders plotted desperately to bypass Big Daddy when Uganda's turn as host rolled unavoidably around this year. In the past, the continent...