Word: ka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finding fossils requires both sharp eyes and a sort of anthropological sixth sense. An experienced fossil hunter, Ka-moya Kimeu, who heads one of Richard Leakey's search teams, has found scores of fragments that attest to early man's presence in East Africa. Most people would walk past these small brownish objects without seeing them...
...revenues last year: $10 million. But Taoka, who is suffering from a heart condition, is no longer strong enough to prevent his fiery young lieutenants from trying to expand Yamaguchi-gumi power into territories held by rival yakuza. As the suspected aggressors in the internecine gangland warfare, Tao-ka's organization has been selected by police as their primary target in the cleanup. Says Seitaro Asanuma, director general of the National Police Agency: "Not until Yamaguchi-gumi is smashed to pieces will the nation accept the sincerity of our police organization...
Died. Jan Patoĉka, 69, senior spokesman for the Czechoslovak Charter 77 group of more than 600 intellectuals, which calls on the Prague government to protect the human rights of its citizens; of a brain hemorrhage; in Prague. A former professor of philosophy, Patoĉka was hospitalized for exhaustion earlier this month after prolonged questioning over a two-day period at the Interior Ministry...
...Switch. The impact of these efforts, however, remained limited without the help of Burma. For more than a decade, Burmese Strongman Ne Win had permitted one of Burma's militias, the Ka Kwe Ye (K.K.Y.), to engage in the opium trade as a reward for its support of his campaign against Communist guerrillas. With this franchise, the K.K.Y. and its most important leader, Lo Hsing-han, openly carried opium along Burmese roads. Early this year Ne Win abruptly switched policy. Worried about growing drug addiction among Burmese youth and realizing that he would have no chance of receiving...
...ever in Berg man, although the conception seems theatrical, the style is superbly cinematic. Bergman is a film maker of consummate craftsmanship. There are mo ments in Cries and Whispers that are among the most memorable he has ever filmed: an eager, unrestrained display of sudden mutual affection between Ka rin and Maria, a desperate fantasy of the sisters touching and talking to each other as the camera pans back and forth and no words are heard, only Bach's music; Agnes, dead, rising from her bed and blindly grasping and holding a hysterical Maria...