Word: provinciale
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With all the hoopla of a midwestern provincial fair, Canada's ruling Liberal Party held a convention in Ottawa last week to choose a successor to Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who has led the country for 15 of the past 16 years. Seven candidates tried to woo the party'...
During the war's early stages, his battles with the censors were tolerable wrangles. As the momentum of Hitler's first successes slackened, censorship tightened and Shirer's struggles to tell something of the truth in his broadcasts became more and more acrimonious and futile ("You can...
A few hours before the House approved military aid, the most infamous Salvadoran death squad triggermen were convicted of murder. After a nonstop 20-hour trial, a jury of Salvadoran civilians found five former national guardsmen guilty of killing four American women in 1980. Three of the victims were Roman...
On the morning of the nationwide elections, Benedictine sisters from the Eucharistic King convent awoke before dawn, attended Mass, then braced themselves for violence. Small wonder: the nuns had signed up to serve as poll watchers in the northern town of Vigan, where for decades local thugs have rigged elections...
Until recently, the most refined TVs spent their lives disguised as pieces of French provincial or early American furniture. But in much the same way the console hi-fi set was split into separate components 20 years ago and turned into the stereo sound system, the TV now comes in...