Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neto government faces huge problems in trying to rebuild war-shattered Angola. Coffee production from devastated fazendas (plantations) in the north will be only 500,000 bags this year, down from the normal 3.5 million bags. The industrial diamond concession in northeastern Angola will produce less than half its prewar output of 2 million carats this year. Internal transport is a shambles: dozens of key bridges and roads have been destroyed. Perhaps the most hopeful note for Neto is that production of crude at Gulf Oil's refinery in Cabinda has been resumed; the $500 million annual royalties from...
...sale in Luanda (pop. 400,000) only three days a week. Long lines form for everything from bread and cigarettes to beer and bottled cooking gas. Three of every four buses in Luanda have been sidelined for lack of spare parts, and only about 20 taxis (of a prewar fleet of 600) are still operating...
Kodama, who turns 65 next week and whose origins in northern Japan are obscure, first burst upon the public consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories...
...hour chamber opera was composed in 1944 inside Theresienstadt, a "model" camp. The piece was in rehearsal but was banned after a similarity between the Emperor and the Führer was detected. Composer Viktor Ullmann, prolific in prewar Vienna, and Librettist Peter Kien, a young painter and poet, were later sent to Auschwitz, where they died. Their manuscript was rediscovered in London three years ago by British Conductor Kerry Woodward, who presented it with The Netherlands Opera Company in Amsterdam...
...does Hirohito bear for Japan's entry into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism...