Word: ens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime.) According to Vance, such cooperation might even lead to a "reconciliation" between Zaire and Angola, both of whose regimes have supported insurgent movements on the other's territory. And the Secretary moved almost as fast as he spoke. Within 24 hours, U.S. Diplomat Donald F. McHenry was en route to Luanda to search for a new modus vivendi with Neto...
...established his reputation and set fashion trends for a decade. Under the management of Jacques Rouet, now 60, it flourished, even after the death of Dior in 1957. But Boussac's textile empire, consisting of a score of companies under the name Comptoir de l'Industrie Textile en France (C.I.T.F.), declined steadily...
...concerned that separate overtures to Eastern Europe might provoke the Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with...
...Chiefs and Limiteds, the passage is the message. "Nostalgia," said one, "is for people who ride phony coal burners at Disneyland." (Note for nostalgia freaks: the Crescent no longer goes clickety-clack; the rails are now continuously welded in 1,400-ft. segments from Washington to New Orleans. En route, the train passes through 15,000 grade crossings...
...most of the enthusiasts, Sun Day was also an occasion for celebrating spring. In Washington, D.C., 20,000 people spent a day reveling en masse in the sun at the Washington Monument, which acted as a gigantic sundial. They threw Frisbees, jogged in a "sun run" around the mall, sang folk songs and listened to blue-grass music...