Word: mi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Mobutu is as inept as he is ruthless, most Western governments feel there is no real alternative to him in sight as a ruler for a huge country (905,562 sq. mi.) with seemingly insoluble tribal conflicts. The French government is anxious to remove the 700 Foreign Legionnaires who freed Kolwezi and replace them with a peace-keeping force to be furnished by several African states. Last weekend U.S. transport planes began flying French troops out of Zaïre and replacing them with Moroccans as the first units of a peace-keeping command. But unless the legionnaires are replaced...
...affairs of their respective populations, and jointly with external affairs and defense. In addition, there would be two Presidents, one Turkish and one Greek, who would alternate as Cyprus' ceremonial chief of state every two years. Turks have also offered to surrender about 5% of the 1,375 sq. mi. occupied during the invasion, to reopen the airport at Nicosia (the island's capital) and to allow as many as 30,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to the Turkish-held city of Famagusta...
...Daniel! Daniel! Why are you arresting Daniel?). She acknowledges that she has been the unwitting instrument of Daniel's capture. She sings the distraught Mi sentivo un Giuda! (I was a Judas...
...trans-Alaska pipeline is in full operation, Alaskan oil is flowing in great volume overland. But its journey to U.S. West Coast ports may soon be interrupted at sea -by icebergs in the tanker shipping lanes. The source of these floating hazards is the Columbia Glacier, a 425-sq.-mi. mass of ice that ends less than seven miles from the tanker lanes for Port Valdez...
While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...