Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it is no more than a tiny wrinkle on the face of Europe, the region called the Saar is one of the last big excuses for France's refusal to approve the European Army. To get that excuse out of the path of EDC, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stopped off at Paris last week for a private conference with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. He was ready to shelve Germany's claims to the Saar and negotiate the terms of its "Europeanization," in return for Bidault's promise to set a firm date...
...editions are put out. Its staff of eight editors, 115 reporters and rewritemen and eight foreign correspondents is supplemented by 2,875 party members, who act as part-time volunteer correspondents, in almost every town in Italy. L'Unità prints 27 subeditions with local news for every region where it is sold. Thus, unlike other Communist papers in the West (e.g., Manhattan's amateurish Daily Worker, San Francisco's People's World), L'Unità works hard to cover the news...
Agricultural Castelfranco (pop. 20,000) is one of the Reddest districts in the Reddest province (Modena) of all Italy. It unfailingly elects Communists to the major offices and contributes to the region's big Red plurality in national elections. But in Castelfranco recently, some 66 of the community's 1,500 registered party members turned in their party cards. Last week one of the defectors explained...
...first stone. It was Zapotec, a relic of a high culture that centered around Oaxaca City and reached its peak during the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Until now, said Bernal, there has been no evidence that the Zapotec culture ever extended as far as the Rio Grande region. The carved symbols on the stone are probably dates, and they may be a help toward deciphering the hieroglyphic writing of the Zapotecs...
...Only the big square symbol on the two figures was familiar to him. It has been found elsewhere in Mexico, in ruins as old as the 5th century. Bernal believes that further digging on the Hill of the Toad may tell what people lived in the secluded Rio Grande region before the Zapotecs came...