Word: continente
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"It's a simple, straightforward yet historic message," he said, addressing the largest audience ever to watch a live presidential speech. (In addition to the 300 journalists who crammed the Press Club, an estimated 200 million watched the speech, which was beamed overseas by the U.S. International Communications Agency...
...cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
AT LEAST AS Secretary of State Alexander Haig reads it, NATO policy in the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe might go something like this: Soviet tanks begin to roll across the continent, overrunning weaker NATO conventional forces. The allies, unsure how else to react, turn quickly...
Hour after hour they paraded down the boulevards of Europe's major capitals, some 200,000 in Brussels (the largest demonstration in the city since World War II), almost 200,000 in London, another 200,000 in Rome, taking to the streets to oppose deployment of new U.S. nuclear...
As pacifist sentiment spreads across the Continent, Mitterrand's attitude is comforting to some fellow Europeans. West Germany's Schmidt has found the French President's public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979...