Word: niles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the heavyweight varisty crew raced in Luxor and Cairo on December 23, 27, and 28, finishing third in all its meets. But, returning crew members said, the excitement of their vacation on the Nile eclipsed their disappointment about the races...
Election-related turmoil in the towns paled next to some of the bloodshed that has ravaged the countryside. In September about 1,000 exiled former members of Idi Amin's army re-entered West Nile province and killed several hundred Ugandan soldiers in hit-and-run attacks. Ugandan reinforcements, and several thousand of the Tanzanian troops who have remained in Uganda since overthrowing Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum...
Already, thousands of people in the parched northeastern region of Karamoja have starved to death. Says Melissa Wells, head of the U.N. development program in Uganda: "Famine is looming in West Nile as well." There are severe food shortages even in Kampala, where the average wage is only $67 a month. A bunch of bananas, a staple, sells for $27. Beer is $20 a bottle...
...Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Angel; three LPs). That old Ethiopian slave girl and would-be war bride finds a new and glorious incarnation in Mirella Freni, whose voice may not move pyramids but finds its way to the heart of the role. This is particularly true in the Nile Scene, where Aïda tussles with her passion for Radames and her love of country. It is a surefire conflict that, after more than a century and countless productions, can easily turn into a theatrical and musical cliché. Von Karajan and his longtime protegee Freni make...
...There's difference in the rhythm now," songwriter Knopfler says of the album. "Pick (Withers, drummer) and John've become my favorite rhythm section. I don't feel I've come on like they have. There're few rhythm sections I like--Fred Smith and Willie Nile, maybe, and Tom Verlaine's Television, they're good. But we've got the same level now. It's a tightness in the sound and feel...