Word: malta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who recently renamed the stadium in Lahore Muammar Gaddafi Stadium in gratitude for Libyan assistance-reportedly including the loan of U.S.-built F-5 fighters-to Moslem Pakistan during the war with India last December. Socialist Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of predominantly Roman Catholic Malta is also in on Gaddafi's personal foreign aid program. Because Gaddafi saw Mintoff's battle with Britain over a new lease for military bases on Malta (see International Notes) as a struggle against imperialism, the Libyan leader last December volunteered $12 million in loans to strengthen Mintoff...
Marcia Heuber's world is one of seasons and crops, dawn-to-dusk farm chores, the kitchen and children in a rambling farmhouse near Malta, Ill. She gets up at 4:30 a.m. most of the year, and by 10 a.m. she has prepared breakfast for her husband and four children, fed and watered the chickens, and washed the first of three loads of laundry. Then she puts in a full day in the fields, helping to sort pigs and cattle, unloading hay bales and gathering the six dozen eggs she sells daily. She drives a tractor, spreads manure...
Film Star Michael Caine's new movie Pulp, now being shot in Malta, is surfing the current wave of nostalgia with a re-creation of old Holly wood times. Pint-sized Mickey Rooney and gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...
...reads like a script for Carry On, Sergeant. Its high point was a regimental costume ball for which Niver and a brother officer dressed as goats Feeling that his talents as a comedian were wasted in the army, Niven resigned his commission after only four years' service in Malta and the British Isles. In 1933 he appeared in New York City, and parlayed a London connection with Barbara Hutton into a job selling liquor for Jack Kriendler...
...British Prime Minister Edward Heath was being urged to up the ante by two of his NATO partners, Italy and the U.S. The Nixon Administration reportedly suggested that NATO could help raise the package to $35.1 million; just before the NATO Council held a round of meetings on the Malta situation, its secretary-general, Joseph Luns, flew to London to talk to Heath...