Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter you published [July 31] erroneously stated that CARE packages were now being sent to American soldiers abroad. The fact is that CARE does not provide assistance of any land to military personnel. Moreover, no CARE packages have been sent anywhere since 1968. Food is shipped in bulk and distributed via schools and nutrition centers...
...foreign tourist, a species once limited to corporate tycoons and wandering rock stars, is abroad in the land. Direct flights from Tokyo to San Francisco are booked solid for the next three weeks, and the number of Japanese visitors to Las Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a month. In New York City, arriving Europeans want to see Times Square and Harlem and then fly south to Disney World. All this activity represents not just world prosperity but also the swooning collapse of the once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss...
...protest from a region where he is not politically popular), the vacationing President quite fittingly was seeing parts of America at its unspoiled best. All too soon, he would have to assume once again the burdens of office. Instead effacing the fleeting question of whether he would land the dancing trout he had just hooked, he would confront Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin across a conference table at Camp David and struggle with the intractable problem of how to achieve an enduring peace in the Middle East...
...order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program. Alone among Shi'ite leaders, Khomeini failed to condemn the Abadan atrocity...
...from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...