Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play on the anticolonialist sentiments of Africans have foundered. For one thing, Africans have discovered that education, customs and trade still tie them more closely to Western Europe. They have also observed that experiments in Marxist socialism have largely been unsuccessful. One of the best examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink of collapse. The Soviets have demonstrated skill at selling arms to poor African nations, often for hard currency, but they have even been less generous than the West with their...
...twin attacks underscored the continuing problems that American military advisers have faced in turning the Salvadoran army from a Praetorian guard of the rich into a modern fighting force. They are particularly concerned about the training and motivation of the captains, majors and lieutenants in charge of field combat. Some junior officers have even told their soldiers to wear street clothes under their uniforms so that if need be they can be dressed for surrender. The number of government troops who have gone over to the guerrillas or allowed themselves to be captured is far higher than the number...
Behind the bizarre succession of events there may have been considerably more at issue than the cost of bread-though rises in food prices have sparked riots in many countries. Despite Tunisia's relatively prosperous face, it is still a country where the rich get richer. In the south, where the rioting began, peasants, mineworkers and laborers complain bitterly of their economic deprivation, compared with the higher standard of living in the more heavily industrialized north...
...decided to pose as Art Dealer "John Blake," with an interest in 17th century Italian painting, pretending to have many rich clients and no moral scruples. Once word of his corruptibility got around the art world, Watson reckoned, he would be offered stolen pictures, including, some day, the Caravaggio...
Harvard's only loss Saturday came when Captain Jim Lubowitz. who moved up to the number two spot in the absence of an injured David Boyum. succumbed to Cadet Rich Clark...