Word: jacarandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere is the misery of Angola's civil war more palpable than in the provincial capital of Huambo. Lavender-blossomed jacaranda trees line the streets, but many buildings are pockmarked by shellfire and bullets. At a health center, one-legged children push themselves on wooden trolleys while waiting for fresh supplies of artificial limbs. Most became amputees the same way as Fernando Segunda, 16: his right leg was blown off when he stepped on a land mine...
...rocked the Begin cabinet with his resignation, the former air force commander watched with moistened eyes as an honor guard saluted him, and later said farewell to the tearful officers of his general staff.Afterward, in the shade of a jacaranda tree in his suburban Tel Aviv garden, he discussed his reasons for resigning and his future political prospects in an interview with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer. Excerpts...