Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embarrassing Custom. As were their ancestors, the Iranians today are lovers of ceremony, formality and tradition. They expect their Shah to act like a king and treat them as subjects. When he appears in a village, they fall to earth to kiss his feet, a custom that causes him much...
The frantic call to arms, broadcast by Radio Biafra, thundered across Nigeria's secessionist Eastern Region last week like the throb of primitive war drums. It was directed at Biafra's Ibo tribesmen, who set up an independent country to escape persecution, but few were in a mood...
It is not that movies are better than ever on television but that the new television series are worse. Last week, according to the latest Nielsen survey, four of the top-rated seven programs were old films, and not a single new-show was titillating enough to crack the top...
If and when Biafra capituates, Gowon will have even less elbow-room. Ibo resistance has hardly pacified the Hausas. And far from convincing the Ibos they belong in Nigeria, the war seems likely to reinforce their determination to escape the Federation Despite federal precautions, there seems little hope of avoiding...
Two Abreast Unseating. More difficult and expensive changes will be put into effect over the next two years. Fuel lines will be shrouded from electric power lines to cut down the possibility of fire: 75% of cabin lights will be designed to remain lit even though a fuselage is broken...