Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beneficiaries of this transfer were a disparate group of oil-possessing Africans, Asians, Latin Americans and, most favored of all, Arabs, who provided two-thirds of the petroleum exports and have more than three-fifths of the proven petroleum reserves in the non-Communist world. One bleak, sparsely populated country is by far the world's greatest seller and reservoir of oil, and one dour, ascetic and shrewd man is its undisputed ruler...
Indeed, the Arabs' ultimate weapon, oil, did much to change the entire balance of their conflict with Israel. Within the United Nations, a bloc of Arab, African, Latin American and Communist countries banded into a new majority, pushing through resolutions that isolated Israel and antagonized the U.S. Only the Dominican Republic and Bolivia voted with the U.S. and Israel when the General Assembly, by a margin of 105 to 4, invited the P.L.O.?with its long record of terrorism?to join in the debate over the Palestine issue. The U.N. welcomed P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat as a conquering hero...
...poorest countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America were the worst hurt victims of the oil squeeze. Indeed, the developing countries' extra costs for oil last year totaled $10 billion, wiping out most of their foreign aid income of $11.4 billion from the industrialized world. In black Africa, only Nigeria has any big known reserves of oil, and Gabon, the Congo Republic and Angola possess some oil. For the other black African countries, the petrobill came to $1.3 billion last year. Development plans were stymied because so much money was drained off for oil. Drought-induced hunger became worse...
...JERUSALEM BIBLE (1966). A majestic much-praised Catholic version, which is indebted to an earlier French translation but puts off some readers by rather self-consciously calling God "Yahweh." Historic because it broke with Jerome's ancient Latin text, and -in the preferable editions-offers modern critical notes...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...