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Word: crespo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...period has been calm in comparison with that in oil-rich Angola (see following story). Portuguese officials have worked well with Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), the black liberation movement that led the ten-year fight against colonial rule, in the transition government. Explains Rear Admiral Vitor Crespo, the Portuguese High Commissioner: "We are both-Frelimo and Portugal -victims of the colonial and capitalist systems. We are now on the same side of the barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOZAMBIQUE: Countdown to Independence | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live as it did before the coming of the Spanish." That is, by sucking on wild animals but not on horses and cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last Licks | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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