Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Now, however, there is a happy alternative. Like songbirds discovering a hole in the cage, musicians are flying the cooped-up confines of the symphony and roosting in the refuge of the university.
By the Will. After the Yemen fiasco, Phillips took refuge in Oman in 1952 and became a good friend of Sultan Said bin Taimur. He went into the oil business one day when the Sultan, after complaining that he had not found oil like other Middle Eastern rulers, said to...
According to Parsi tradition, Zoroaster was assassinated at the age of 77 by an unbeliever while worshiping at a fire temple. Within a century after his death, his teachings seem to have been accepted as the state religion by the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes. Although the faith was driven underground after...
Clots & Cancer. On the key issue of whether the pills are really safe, the formal report took refuge behind a double negative: "The committee finds no adequate scientific data, at this time, proving these compounds unsafe for human use." A committee spokesman translated: "We wanted to put a word of...
In Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville), President Mobutu believed otherwise. Charging that some of the white mercenaries-principally Belgians of the 6th Commando-were behind the mutiny, he fired off angry charges to Brussels and sent Premier Leonard Mulamba to Stanleyville to calm the mutineers. At week's end, Mulamba reported...