Word: nic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tensions in Azerbaijan can only further stir Iran's other jostling eth nic minorities-the Kurds in adjoining Kurdistan, the Arabs near the Persian Gulf, the Baluchis and the Turkomans to the east. Last week there even came a brief incursion by the Iraqis across their disputed frontier. The Kurds are most likely to cause trouble next. These flinty, well-armed peasants, isolated in their mountain hideaways, have in the past fought more fiercely for independence than Iran's other dissident minorities, and a cease-fire agreement that they signed last month with the Khomeini government just expired...
...then there's Brown. Don't get me wrong, I love bears. I've outgrown Teddies, but watching Yogi and Boo Boo going after "pic-a-nic baskets" in Jellystone Park is still...
...MANAGUA, Nic.--President Anastasio Somoza used troops, tanks, and warplanes to quell the latest and bloodiest uprising against his rule, but the rebellion against him appears far from over...
...MANAGUA, Nic.--The Nicaraguan government claimed yesterday it has quelled a 12-day uprising against President Anatasio Somoza. The Red Cross has estimated that more than 1000 persons have been killed in the fighting...
...people who haven't ever seen it; more amazing still are the ones who hate it. My junior roommate from Rochester, New York, really a marvelous guy and a cineaste to boot, just couldn't see why this was so funny. (Senator Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex Haley might point...