Word: rian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smuggling of food from Nige- rian-held territory into Biafra has been discouraged severely by both armies. Only a trickle of food reaches Biafra from this route anyway, but some of the smuggled food was found to contain poisonous ingredients. Deliberate poisoning of food supplies was suspected first in 1967 when several deaths were thought to be caused by toxic foods. Of 1487 samples of salt--the principal item being smuggled in--which were tested by Biafrans during the last part of 1968, 20 samples contained toxic quantities of arsenic and 50 contained cyanide...
Like many another radio-station operator, John M. Norris, of Red Lion, Pa., stopped by the Federal Communications Commission headquarters when he was in Washington recently. What made his visit notable was that Norris, who also happens to be a Bible Presbyte rian minister, brought along six asso ciates. All seven of them planted themselves outside the door of FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde, bowed their heads and began a pray-in, asking the Great Commissioner up yonder to force a decision on a TV franchise application that the FCC has been sitting...
...trip had all the mystery of a ride on the old Orient Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued...
Brand-New City. The financial genius behind Nimba is Swedish Financier Marcus Wallenberg, 64 (TIME, June 7), who saw the opportunities in Liberia and knitted together half a dozen Swedish mining companies and U.S. and German financial interests into a complex consortium called LAMCO-Libe-rian American-Swedish Minerals Co. LAMCO dispatched Geologist Clark to Nimba when almost everyone else in Liberia was searching elsewhere for iron. After Clark's discovery, President William Tubman's government gave the company exemption from taxes and a mining concession until 2023 in return for half ownership of LAMCO. A substantial junior...
...tragedy gave resolution to others. Amid Atlanta's grief, there was talk of establishing an art school as a memorial; there was a new burst of enthusiasm for a proposed bond issue for the establishment of a cultural center of the performing arts. But, as a Presbyte rian minister said: "You can substitute people like that, but you can never replace them...