Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although some slow progress has been made by UNITA forces toward Teixeira de Sousa and Henrique de Carvalho (see map page 17), the military sit uation on the ground remained relative ly unchanged last week. Despite Soviet military aid and the help of 7,500 Cu bans, the M.P.L.A. holds only about a quarter of the country. But State De partment officials concede that Neto's leftist government has a big lead over the other two factions not only in fire power but in organization and experi ence. Assessing the three groups, one U.S. diplomat observes: "The M.P.L.A...
...also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison in early 1974, is now editor in chief of al Akhbar, which regularly prints his broadsides against the dead...
Attorneys representing the province of Quebec found all this quaint but irrelevant. Their argument was simple, traditional and arrogant: how could a handful of primitives in a vast wilderness stand in the way of progress? The government also tried to persuade the judge that Cree and Eskimos were eagerly embracing the white man's ways. Considerable effort was made to produce a witness who had seen Indians eating Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner...
...trained--punching, dancing, working on the elements of his style--in a way he never bothered when he still labelled himself a "loser" during his ten years as a fighter before. In a beautiful sequence set to Bill Conti's gradually crescendoing music, the camera follows the progress of Rocky's 4 a.m. runs around the sleeping city as he gets faster and the early shoppers begin to recognize him as a kind of local hero climaxing in the one morning when he finally mounts the steps of the capital just as the sun comes over...