Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both countries are in almost continual consultation. This week Yugoslav President Tito will meet with Rumanian President and Communist Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu on the Rumanian-Yugoslav border, not far from where the two countries are jointly building a huge dam at the Danube's so-called Iron Gate rapids. On its completion next summer, the dam, which will be capable of producing more electricity than Egypt's Aswan, will power new industrial plants in the two countries...
...them without going through Greece. In turn, Greece is a frequent target of Bulgarian propaganda, but Sofia earlier this year signed a pact for joint economic and scientific cooperation with Athens. Sofia is also negotiating with Athens for rights to use the Greek port of Salonica for unloading Algerian iron ore bound for Bulgarian plants located just across the border...
...Master Gamester Willy Brandt gives away to the Soviets what is behind the Iron Curtain, then walks off with a Nobel Peace Prize for himself [Nov. 1]. The big losers are the millions of people in East Germany who had hoped to some day determine their destiny for themselves. What will Willy win when he wagers what lies behind the Wall...
...fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...
...break Europe's future. One of the optimists is Otto von Habsburg, onetime heir to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and now a full-time promoter of European unity. "When I was a boy," he says, "the Rhine River represented a dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such as the removal of the American military shield. "It seems absurd to have 220 million Americans...