Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caetano's colonial policy means, of course, that Portugal will continue to lack the funds at home to undertake much-needed public works and industrialization. Similarly, the repressive overseas policy impedes progress toward liberalization at home. At the same time, Caetano, who already has allowed the return from exile of Salazar's most prominent political enemy, Lawyer Mario Scares, and eased the press censorship somewhat, pledged that he would submit specific reform bills to the National Assembly before its present term ends next April. Portuguese liberals want Caetano to abolish all forms of censorship, guarantee civil rights...
...single Constellation, parked on the palm-lined seaside tarmac. Patient research shows that the aircraft have varied registration-French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned by the French security police, that follows...
...treated to a nightclub, complete with daiquiris, a chorus line and an audience of gaping Eastern Europeans. The shopping downtown is better: in addition to cigars and rum, bargains include East German cameras and beautifully embroidered Czech peasant blouses. These may also be confiscated by U.S. customs on your return, but they can be regained on application to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Washington...
...wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue and diplomacy enveloping the German General Staff, and The Axe of Wandsbek, a bitter indictment of Nazi Germany. Yet Zweig always regarded himself as a German and Socialist first and a Jew second, was persuaded "in 1948 to return to East Germany, where he became a cultural ornament of the Communist regime, even served a term in the Volkskammer (Parliament...
...been heightened by the prospects of a close race between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has announced that on Dec. 21 it hopes to launch three astronauts aboard Apollo 8. According to the projected schedule, they will circle the moon ten times, starting on Christmas Eve, then return to the earth, where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet space shots and past Soviet behavior are convinced that at least one, and perhaps as many as three cosmonauts...