Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They only drafted one player from the Ivy League this year. The attitude of most people is that the calibre of talent isn't that good here. The scouts should take a better look at the Ivies and at the whole New England region," Curry said...
...democratic country of 720,000 inhabitants bordered by South Africa, Angola, Zambia and Rhodesia. The country has voted in the United Nations to impose economic sanctions against South Africa. Despite its proximity to South Africa, the government has successfully maintained Botswana's independence, unlike other bordering states in the region...
...pesky UNITA guerrillas of Jonas Savimbi in the southern part of the country. Last year the Cubans moved into Ethiopia in a big way. Reinforced by huge supplies of Soviet equipment, they helped the unstable Marxist junta in Addis Ababa drive Somali insurgents out of Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. Now the Ethiopians, with the reluctant help of their 17,000 Cuban guests, are attacking secessionists in the northern province of Eritrea, where a brushfire war has been smoldering for some 15 years. All told, Cuba now has 43,000 troops on duty in at least 14 African nations...
...hard to realize that at the source of this exuberant retreat was a bloody massacre. The attack on Kolwezi by the self-styled Katangese "Tigers" had been thoroughly organized. A year earlier, an estimated 2,000 rebels had launched Shaba I, an incursion into the region that was halted short of Kolwezi after 49 days of fighting between the F.N.L.C. forces and the French-supported Moroccan and Zaïrian troops. The rebels promised to return to Shaba and overthrow Mobutu's regime. They carefully planned this infiltration. After the liberation of Kolwezi, French paratroopers found three railroad cars...
Iran's future stability is of great importance to the West. Bordered by the Soviet Union to the north, Soviet-armed Iraq to the west and a new leftist regime in Afghanistan to the east, Iran is the major pro-Western military power in the Persian Gulf region. Although down 3% last year, Iran's oil income still brings the country about $22 billion a year. The Shah's problem is to see that this treasure is channeled into enough social benefits to defuse public discontent, thus allowing political reforms to be carried out in a relatively...