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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their liver), is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains almost as much protein as canned tuna. Shark is a highly esteemed food in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Orient (indeed, delicately flavored shark's fin soup is a standard dish in U.S. Chinese restaurants) and Latin America, where savory dried and smoked shark meat is known as bacalao de tiburón. In England, vast quantities of dogfish, a small shark, are sold in fish-and-chips shops...
...less developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, women are much further behind. The profound differences among women of varying cultures were starkly revealed at the U.N. World Conference for International Women's Year in Mexico City last summer. The meeting bogged down in bickering and accomplished little. Women in much of the Arab world remain isolated and subservient; in Saudi Arabia, they still inhabit harems. But in Egypt and Lebanon, stirrings of emancipation are evident...
...fact, were the six members of the so-called Arm of the Arab Revolution that assaulted OPEC headquarters? Their leader was probably a flamboyantly notorious Latin American terrorist who goes by the name of "Carlos" (see box). Two others, according to Algerian authorities, were Palestinians, and one was Lebanese. Two were European, one an unidentified woman in her early 20s, possibly Irish or English, and the other Hans-Joachim Klein, 28, who worked in a lawyer's office in Frankfurt and associated with radicals...
...leader did not look like pictures of Carlos. But Venezuela's oil minister, Valentín Hernàndez Acosta, insisted that "the head of the commandos was definitely Ilyich Ramírez Sànchez, alias Carlos." Added another OPEC official: "If Carlos is a Latin American of medium height who speaks Spanish, French, English, German and Arabic, and if he is a cool killer who can also be polite to his hostages, then probably it was Carlos who kept us here...
Saint. The word is heavy with meanings, not all of them congenial to modern man. The original Latin from which it derives, sanctus, means holy, and all the definitions since have revolved around just whom or what people consider holy. To many, saint is a medieval word, redolent of incense, conjuring up halos and glowing, distant images of spiritual glory in some great cathedral's stained-glass windows. To others, the word is still useful...