Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflicts. For ordinary Africans, the fate of Biafra evokes all their own fears about tribal survival, and from the beginning they and much of Africa's press have shown concern for Biafra's cause. Moreover, Biafra is an African product, and that arouses admiration. "We are Africa's first real nationalist state," says Ojukwu. "We constitute a warning to other states that oppression of minorities cannot go unpunished." This argument has had considerable effect on the four African heads of state who now recognize Biafra. "You cannot kill thousands of people and keep killing more in the name of unity...
...Communists rise up so prematurely-long before they were ready for a real test of armed strength with the government? Puzzled Djakarta officials put it down to the Indonesian Communists' notoriously bad sense of timing and planning. After all, an ill-prepared Communist uprising flopped in 1948, and the 1965 coup attempt was a model of mismanaged conspiracy...
...daughter of the "mad monk" who held dark dominance over the Czarina. Soon after the two women met in Charlottesville, Va., they began reminiscing. Twice Anna called Maria by her pet name, "Mara." No matter what others may think, Maria says she is convinced that Anna is the real Anastasia. If Anna can eventually convince the German courts, she stands to inherit some $12.5 million of the Romanov fortune...
...should know. Back in the mid-1950s, about the time when his The Organization Man was published, Whyte watched with horrified wonder as his home county in Pennsylvania's lovely Brandywine Valley was ruined by heedless real estate development. He decided he should learn more about land use and conservation. He has since be come an expert on the subject. He helped to draft conservation programs for Connecticut, California and New York, also served on President Johnson's task force on natural beauty...
...billed as a sort of religion of religions, combining parts of Hindu Veda and Dharma, Taoism, Old Testament wisdom, Buddhist principles of brotherly love and compassion, the early Greeks, Lucretius, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spencer and Freud. Yet fundamental religious doctrines-the existence of God, for example-play no real part in the philosophy of Scientology, which is concerned solely with the here and now and is based on the twin principles that "man is basically good" and that "the spirit alone may save or heal the body...