Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was rejecting his critics' "inordinate fear of Communism" and ridiculing those who thought it imperative to react "every time [Leonid] Brezhnev sneezes." What eventually brought the President to the point of taking a different line was the latest crisis in Africa, this one in the huge copper-rich nation of Zaïre, once known as the Belgian Congo. There, a force of 1,900 French and Belgian paratroops, assisted by 18 U.S. jet transports, had just routed another invasion of Zaire's Shaba region (formerly Katanga province) by secessionists based in Angola...
Kolwezi was a city of the dead. Almost as swiftly as it had begun, the seven-day battle for control of the industrial heart of Zaïre's copper-rich Shaba province ended last week. Driven from the city by the hard-fighting paratroopers of France's Foreign Legion (see box), an estimated 2,000 Katangese rebels faded back into the bush, retreating toward their home bases in eastern Angola. The paratroopers took up new positions at Lubumbashi, 160 miles away, turning over their guard duty to Zaïrian troops loyal to President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...rich Iranians can afford homes abroad, Swiss bank accounts and a seemingly endless supply of imported goods. But the big question now facing the country as a whole is how much political freedom will it decide it can afford...
This week Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, will celebrate its 200th birthday with well-deserved pomp. Andover is in the top rank of American preparatory schools-and in the forefront of their effort to become more than sheltered preserves for rich men's sons. TIME'S Evan Thomas, a 1969 alumnus, revisited Andover and reported...
...after World War I, created a vast industrial empire, and earned a seven-year war-crimes sentence for making P.O.W.s do forced labor for Hitler. Flick Senior bounced back after serving only three years of his sentence. Released in 1950, he was ordered by the Allies to sell his rich holdings in either coal or steel. He chose coal and collected more than $50 million, which he used to build an even more prosperous empire based on petrochemicals, paper, steel-and Daimler-Benz stock. Today the Flick Group is a $4-billion-a-year conglomerate of some 100 companies that...