Word: regions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television equipment aboard an unmanned satellite will transmit to the ground observations on the ultra-violet region of the sky. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is so blocked by the earth's atmosphere that such measurements cannot be made from the surface...
With the chiefs out of the way, he set up more than 4,000 village councils, elected by universal suffrage. This grass-roots democracy was something new to French Africa, and in the hidebound Moslem region of Fouta Djallon even some women got elected. "The election of women, griots and former slaves," declared Touré expansively, "is the mark of a veritable prize of political conscience, a spiritual revolution...
...first coin into a hat to launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot and plan, Castro's soldiers talk knowingly of landing strips and beaches, of living off the land Trujillo has cut up into agricultural colonies...
...sides. Then they hope that the oil will be thin enough for piping to the surface. Experts claim that no radioactive hazards to man will result from the planned explosion. If the Athabaska sands yield their treasure, an estimated 300 billion bbl. of crude can be freed in that region alone...
...Planter's Son. Castro's father, Angel Castro, a penniless immigrant from the Spanish region of Galicia, had already worked hard and made plenty of money by the time Fidel was born in 1926. Fidel Castro grew up as the planter's son on a $500,000 sugar plantation at Mayari, 50 miles from Santiago. He was in love with guns from the time he fired his first .22, hunting in the mountains where he would one day return, an outlaw. From the age of eight he spent most of his time at a Roman Catholic boarding...