Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robertson, an American couple whose son Lady Diana played nanny to in 1979 and 1980). Inevitably there are also a few conspicuous by their absence, like King Juan Carlos of Spain, who was miffed that the Prince and Princess of Wales chose to embark on their honeymoon cruise from Gibraltar, a British colony that the Spanish consider their...
...minority government of former Prime Minister Ian Smith at the height of the Rhodesian civil war and remained on the books after black nationalists took over the government of newly independent Zimbabwe last April. (The law was repealed only after the Tekere trial began.) At the advice of their Gibraltar-born white lawyer, Nick McNally, the defendants claimed that they were only trying to protect government officials from a "terrorist" plot on their lives...
...assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with the expedition: "I've never been on a better river-dragging, or seen better behavior. If it took catching catfish to move the Rock of Gibraltar, I believe this outfit could move...
...Mediterranean is a closed sea, its only significant outlet being the Straits of Gibraltar. Nearly 90% of the sewage that pours into its waters is untreated. The Naples sewer system is so antiquated that authorities cannot even locate the pipes. In Athens, 60% of the city is not connected to the central sewage system. Pollution is most severe along the French and Italian Rivieras, where the chemical wastes of thousands of factories are flushed directly into the sea or carried there by major rivers. The chances of getting all 18 countries that border the Mediterranean to agree on methods...
...Samuel Horowitz, an aged widower who has been mugged by blacks, suffered a stroke and is blisteringly irate to find himself in the hands of a black therapist. Formidably equipped for any racial skirmish, Mrs. Washington (Esther Rolle) is the kind of woman who could make the Rock of Gibraltar crumble. While the antiblack, anti-Jewish jokes may offend those of liberal pieties, the laughter on opening night roared through Broadway's John Golden Theater at hurricane force. The odd couple radiates sweetness and light at the end of the evening...