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Word: imperiale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imperial Gestures. In his early years as Emperor, Haile Selassie launched a drive to build schools, highways and railways. He granted a new constitution in 1955 that promised Ethiopians equal rights under the law. In the 1960s, he turned Addis Ababa into a modern city. Yet Ethiopia remained a desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Lion Is Freed | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

For a while after his overthrow, there were rumors that the new, increasingly leftist military government intended to execute the old Emperor, or allow him to go into exile in exchange for the hoard he was said to have in numerous Swiss banks. Instead, he was permitted to spend his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Lion Is Freed | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Warren, 70, whose career has included Pulitzer Prizes for both poetry and fiction, does not shirk controversy in these two sinuously reasoned essays. He contends that art and democracy feed on each other, because both depend on the play of unfettered minds. At first glance, this seems preposterous; Western art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guerrilla Bards | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

Things, however, are not always what they seem. In fact, Dukakis has turned out to be very much like Frank Sargent, only worse, Sure he takes the subway to work instead of a limousine, eats sand-wiches in the office instead of big banquets, and hired a bright young staff...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: The Errant Duke | 8/8/1975 | See Source »

Israel had responded to the Egyptian moves by calling up reservists to the Sinai front, but Rabin and his government doubted all along that Egypt was economically or militarily ready for another war. The Israelis were less angered by Egypt's threat than by some of the hostile language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Bits of Progress, Lots of Bluster | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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