Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...base camps inside Angola, mostly by way of Zambia. They are survivors of an invasion force of several thousand Katangese secessionists in exile who massacred 131 Europeans and at least four tunes that many blacks in an abortive effort to liberate their homeland, Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba region, formerly Katanga province. The invaders were driven into the jungle by French Foreign Legionnaires and Belgian paratroopers, called in by Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, No. 1 enemy of the Katangese...
...healthy economy cannot tolerate that pace. It wipes away most wage and salary gains, lowers standards of living and sets poor, middle class and rich to snarling at one another. It also weakens the dollar overseas: foreign moneymen rush to dump greenbacks out of fear that inflation will steadily erode their value. Last week the dollar slipped to a record low of 201 Japanese yen, down almost 17% just since January. The dollar's slide, in turn, makes U.S. inflation worse because it raises the prices that Americans pay for imported goods...
...rights of the press. Says Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "The court feels the press is arrogant and greedy and powerful enough to get what it wants without help from the court. But most of the press is not the big, rich, influential media that the Justices see in Washington, and all those local reporters do need support from the court to do their...
...very first entry has an astonishingly religious tone for an unbeliever: "For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it really is: an infinite grace...
...Hogue) or even his worst (The Killer Elite, Bring Me the Head of Al fredo Garcia). At one point the film's hero announces that "the purpose of the convoy is to keep moving"; maybe so, but if Convoy has any purpose, forward movement is not it. - Frank Rich...