Word: makings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tinsel and ticky-tacky? The Chicago area's Brookfield Zoo has the answer: give your loved ones a Siberian tiger, or perhaps a rhinoceros. Under the scheme, the zoo has put up all 2,000 of its animals for "adoption," although they stay in the park. You can make someone a "Brookfield parent," or become one yourself, by donating money to help the hard-pressed zoo keep going. Prices vary. Parental rights, of a sort, to the Siberian tiger go for $1,800 a year; the rhino costs $2,000. Says Joyce Gardella, a Brookfield official: "Right away...
...openly impatient with the Dutch and the Belgians on the missile question. Said Bonn's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We Germans realize you have political difficulties. But two out of three of the new rockets will be based on our territory." He called on the organization to make "a clear-cut decision for the sake of the alliance...
...down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor General, tomorrow morning...
...Westerners have been allowed to visit Cambodia since the Vietnamese occupation. Last month, however, French Photojournalist Jean-Claude Labbe was permitted to make an unprecedented four-week tour of the country. Traveling by motorcycle and by car, without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border, Labbe first rode from Sai- Saigon to Phnom-Penh, where he shot pictures of the devastated Cambodian capital beginning to stir to life again amid the rubble of war. He then drove along Cambodia's main arteries, Highways 5 and 6, visiting twelve provinces in a journey that totaled...
After nearly a year of fighting the remnants of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces, Hanoi's troops appear to have driven the guerrillas out of their last remaining towns and into sanctuaries, the jungles and mountains. Says Labbe: "As far as I could make out, there isn't a single population center in all of Cambodia, big or small, that is under Pol Pot control or that has a Khmer Rouge flag flying overhead...