Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, the Afro-Asian world has expanded from 29 to 65 nations, each with its own, pressing internal problems. The grand dream of 1955 has fragmented into even more intense subdreams-expressed by smaller groupings such as the Arab League, the Organization of African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality of national interests: Zambia and Malawi, dependent as they are on good relations with neighboring, white-run Rhodesia, refuse to join the African militants who demand the bloody overthrow of Ian Smith...
...Vietniks et...
...brilliant Mexican poet, essayist, playwright and diplomat Octavio Paz has shown how his country's revolution and governmental intervention in economic life led to eventual diversified development. And as British Economist Dudley Seers et al, have put it in Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution: "Almost any degree of disorganization would have been preferable to the complete failure in Cuba in earlier years to mobilize the factors of production...
...beautiful 5,000-meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France's national basketball team. "You and I certainly look at problems in the same manner," quipped the 6-ft. 4-in. general...
...countless fictional (and occasionally real) spy plots, love affairs, murders and desperate struggles that took place as it raced across Europe. All the action occurred in railway cars owned by a company with a title to match the grandeur of the Express: Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits is once again demonstrating its durability by restoring the full Paris-to-Bucharest run of the Orient Express, which has not operated in five years. The increasingly Western-minded Rumanians requested restoration of the run so that they could have a link with Paris...