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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smith for three months in 1976 and nobody called him a puppet. He failed, but we have succeeded. Now Nkomo is jealous." Muzorewa believes that once the joint executive council is set up and an amnesty declared for guerrillas, many if not most of the Patriotic Front supporters will desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Agonizing over the Settlement | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Where is the Atacama Desert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You Think Hourlies Are Tough? | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...Atacama Desert in North Chile is approximately 400 miles long and has an elevation of 7000 to 13,500 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You Think Hourlies Are Tough? | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...sand of the desert is sodden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Demon and the Muse | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...agree that both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus (Egyptian Ape), that lived some 28 million to 30 million years ago. Returning there last fall, Simons and a colleague from the State University of New York at Stony Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laskey's Find | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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