Word: lingua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow last week grinning Ghanaian diplomats gleefully celebrated the signing of a $45 million contract for Soviet development of their nation's mineral and industrial resources. In the Hotel de France in Guinea's steaming capital of Conakry, the lingua franca of the lobby has shifted from French to Russian. At Leopoldville and Stanleyville in tne Congo, Soviet Ilyushin transports buzz familiarly in and out, debouching badly needed food -plus intelligence officers, tactical advisers for premier Patrice Lumumba's army and, according to Western intelligence reports, arms and ammunition...
...graduates are all Turkish, about 12% of the school's 515 students come from other countries in the area, and the figure will rise to as much as 20%. Most of the students are still from upper-class backgrounds; since English is the modern world's technical lingua franca, all studies are conducted in English, and only the best-educated students are equipped to understand the texts. But in time, President Burdell expects his enrollment to include ''sons and daughters of peasants of Anatolia, miners of Zonguldak, fishing families of the Black Sea." In keeping with...