Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life Idi Amin Dada was still at large. He had been variously reported to have fled to Zaire, the Sudan or Iraq, as well as to several points around his own country. At week's end he was said to have been spotted in a village near the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale, traveling in a Land Rover full of radio equipment and accompanied by five Libyan bodyguards...
...death, but was later convicted of treason, despite his foreign nationality, and sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. In early 1956, when Soviet authorities were cutting down the Gulag population as part of the destalinization drive, Maloumian was informed by the warden of Taishet, a prison in eastern Siberia, that his arrest had been a mistake and that he was to be declared "rehabilitated" and freed. Though he returned to France, where he became an airline ticket salesman, Maloumian never forgave the Soviets for his seven-year imprisonment and constantly sought reparations. Now, 23 years later, his efforts...
...confrontation with Yale comes May 13 in the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., a race that will resolve the competing claims between the undefeated oarsmen...
...gives Harvard a 16-12 overall record and a 5-4 record in the crucial Eastern League standings. "We're not mathematically out of it yet." Stenhouse said yesterday, surveying his team's chances for a playoff berth. "It's going to be tough, but if we win the rest of our games and with a little help from the other teams in the league we may still get an invitation...
...with fast-paced technologically-oriented lives, Westerners were thirsting for the rest and calmness of the East, Chitrabhanu says: "If they take the time to understand the inside life as they have understood the phenomena of the outside, it will be a blessing for mankind." It is just this Eastern calm and self-awareness that Chitrabhanu is trying to instill...