Word: oro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...materialized in the U.S. Last week more than 500 objects of Colombian gold went on exhibit at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Most of these treasures-which next year will travel to Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans-come from Bogotá's Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), which has collected some 26,000 ancient gold pieces, often buying them up from guaqueros (professional tomb robbers) who otherwise would probably sell them to foreign collectors...
...estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain independence for a new "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic" and the 100,000 people, mostly Reguibet tribesmen, it would represent...
...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...most preservation has been done by private organizations, many of them international. The British have refurbished the magnificent church of the Madonna dell'Orto; the French fixed up the church of Santa Maria della Salute; the Americans, the façade of the Cà d'Oro. Still, the job is far from finished; about another 200 palazzi, churches and buildings remain to be rescued. That badly needed work will soon start, when Italy at last moves to save one of man's unique and exquisite creations. "La Serenissima," editorializes the daily Il Messaggero, "should rise again...
...York firms are aiming at the homosexual market, one with a series of nine-day junkets to Isla de Oro, in Panama's San Bias Islands, where the men sleep in hammocks in palm-thatched huts. A magazine aimed at homosexuals is offering a brace of two-week trips to Europe. "It's not a sexual trip," says one of the excursion's sponsors, "but a cultural one, intended for people interested in meeting those with similar interests...