Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officially unofficial, rated full-dress treatment from Johnson. Afghanistan, after all, shares borders with Russia as well as Red China-not to mention Pakistan, India and Iran. There were bands, honor guards, a 19-gun salute, and a sit-down lunch for 140 in the Yellow Oval Room with green turtle soup, Florida red snapper and vanilla Jalalabad, named for the mountain resort that is the Afghans' Aspen. Afterward, during a half-hour talk with the President, Maiwandwal promised that Afghanistan would continue to press for democratic reforms. Johnson, in turn, agreed in principle to make some $40 million...
...knot of youths surged into Pamplona's Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police unsuccessfully pursued them, their rockets exploded into a shower of paper flags, each bearing the red field and two green crosses of Euzkadi, the homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony...
...their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words for yes (bai) and no (ez). More important, Basques by the hundreds of thousands have come out of their tight green mountain valleys and moved to the cities to become businessmen, industrialists and factory workers...
...pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter, and once crash-landed his one-engine Tiger Moth on a mountain. Although he is in good health, his doctors have warned him to slow down...
...testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja had actually been Mrs. Alcorta's "lover and paramour"-a vital fact of which Prosecutor Hubert W. Green Jr. was fully aware. In 1958 Green was named Texas' Outstanding Prosecutor...