Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility recommended yesterday that Harvard abstain from voting its stock on a shareholder resolution prohibiting Exxon from drilling for oil in Guinea-Bissau under concessions from the Portuguese government...
...advances. Antonio de Spinola, the country's new strong man, has no great democratic biography--his military service came as a Fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, as an observer with the German army in World War II, and as a commander with Portugal's colonial army in Guinea-Bissau. He doesn't stand for independence of the colonies--just a vaguely defined "autonomy"--and he inaugurated his government by announcing that he believes in full political freedoms--within reason...
...Robert Good (TIME cover, March 19, 1973). In 1972 he reported that he had succeeded in grafting white skin onto black mice and black skin onto white animals. Last year he told the American Society for Clinical Investigation that he had crossed species barriers and grafted skin from humans, guinea pigs and pigs onto mice...
...month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...
...often helicoptered to rebel fighting fronts armed only with a swagger stick, Spinola is admired not only by the 45,000 troops in Portugal but also by both black soldiers and white settlers in Africa. After he left his position last year as commander and military governor of Guinea-Bissau (where he reportedly met in secret with leaders of the rebel forces), troop morale there plummeted...