Word: reuber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the austere Socialist regime of Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, miniskirts, cosmetics and wigs are anathema, and beauty contests are banned as "exploitations of human flesh." Small wonder, then, that the government frowned on a visit by "Miss World," Austria's Eva Reuber-Staier. "A society which annually parades its women like cattle to award them prizes," puffed a government newspaper, is "alien to our culture and sense of dignity." Purred Eva: "I am very sorry not to be going to Tanzania. I hear it's a wonderful country -with some very handsome cattle...
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