Word: laste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars or even a policeman. Life has changed little since Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, creating a path that many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
...Bank of America officer moved into the village, quietly began listing everyone entitled to stock- from 18-month-old Orietta Perasso to 90-year-old Giovanni Ferretto. Unaccustomed to stocks and banks, or for that matter to generous, impulsive gestures from strangers, the villagers were suspicious. But last week all save a few skeptics donned feast-day clothes to sign their names-or "X"-to their Bank of America stock certificates. Few had decided what to do with their money. "We wait until tomorrow," said one peasant. "I might buy a suit." allowed another. "And I'd like...
...continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue to be so. But last week, this convenient arrangement lay in ruin. "Belgium did a very bad business," sighed Premier Gaston Eyskens as he surveyed the latest of Belgium's colonial disasters, "when it took over Ruanda-Urundi...
...schools they opened gave the Muhutus some new notions about their old masters. In 1957 the Muhutus even formed their own political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through its new plan to set up elected parliaments in Ruanda and Urundi and turn the two territories into constitutional kingdoms...
...with Their Feet. Last week Belgium announced that it intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands of Muhutus, feeling the strength of their superior numbers, turned almost every hill into a natural fortress. Though the Muhutus left the Watutsi women and children alone, they showed no mercy to the males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations...