Word: natalic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spear of the Nation, which operates with more finesse than Poqo and at present tries to spare human life, is the militant arm of the African National Congress, whose Nobel prizewinning leader, ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, is under house arrest in rural Natal. Spear's most spectacular coups to date have been the bombing of the Agricultural Minister's office in Pretoria and the blowing up of several giant power pylons around Johannesburg. Sabotage trials continue up and down the country. In the East Rand town of Benoni, a black prisoner disrupted the court by shouting "Shoot...
...cold war provides the proper natal temperature at which secret agents are born and flourish. This book, by a pseudonymous author who served the U.S. Government in a variety of intrigues over a 16-year period, aims at-and intelligently succeeds in-explaining the theory and purpose of cloak-and-dagger work. It also argues that every serious U.S. failure, from the U-2 to the Bay of Pigs, "has either been caused or compounded by those responsible ignoring or brushing aside the classic principles of secret operations...
...time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma Maranhão, mayor of Natal in Brazil's impoverished Northeast. In Brazil alone, some 3 billion glasses of milk a year are distributed in 25,000 public schools. At the end of a three-month period, reports one Brazilian teacher, most of her pupils gained at least five pounds. With plenty of surplus food where this...
...believe the promised help was a loan of approximately $400,000, which would include 120 million cruzeiros for water supply in Natal, 49 million cruzeiros for water-supply services in three small cities, and $50,000 in technical assistance and equipment for carrying out other small water-supply projects...
Teodoro Moscoso, the Puerto Rican who bosses President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, flew south to Brazil three weeks ago in search of a little progress. By the time he reached Natal, capital of the drought-plagued Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, Moscoso had made up his mind on one thing: Brazil needed help in a hurry and its national government was so bogged down in political crisis that state and regional agencies were his best bet. Last week, after a conference with Rio Grande do Norte Governor Aluizio Alves, Moscoso signed an agreement promising an immediate...