Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston, went to Kenya in 1959 and was told by British colonial servants that Kenyatta was confined, or "rusticated" as they put it, near the Somali frontier. The militant Mau Mau leader was said to be a "hopeless alcoholic." A year later, Bell met Kenyatta in a village in northern Kenya. He was tall and dignified, and Bell remembers him manipulating a fly whisk with great style and grace. At first he spoke haltingly, "not because he was a gone alcoholic," Bell recalls, "but because he hadn't spoken English in seven years. By the end, he was speaking...
...Catholics?even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this Protestant inner sanctum, their defiance touched off a tragic tribal war that has engulfed all Northern Ireland. Yet after ten years of bloodshed, the city that served as the fuse for war may have found the balm for peace, as Derry Protestants and Catholics set an example for the rest of Northern Ireland by attempting to share power...
Bonita wanted the plot to follow the pattern of the original, and anyone who saw that one might be excused for saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen them all." Crusty but kind James Stewart is raising his two orphaned grandchildren in postcard-pretty Northern California. "Oh, golly, gee, I love that home-town feeling," sings Gramps. "People always say hello." Lassie is their pet, and they all spend a lot of time hugging her. Suddenly a baldheaded, mean-looking rich man develops a yen for the dog; she reminds him of his own dead collie, the only...
...eyes, but no hysteria, in the crowd that is almost entirely white and middle class. The people are quiet and reverent. "He's a legend and we just want to be part of it," explains George Lecky, 31, a truck driver who has come from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to spend more than a week in Memphis. He has brought with him his girl friend, his daughter and a nephew; all four wear matching Elvis T shirts...
...Russians had already registered their displeasure by canceling fisheries talks that were in progress in Moscow. The Soviets had previously cut severely into Japanese fishing rights by declaring a 200-mile protected zone around their northern shores. Japanese officials in Tokyo, however, doubted whether Moscow would go so far as to damage their trading relationship, which at $3 billion a year is beneficial to both countries...