Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just playing into the hands of the apartheid regime--buying time, taking the heat off apartheid. I think the U.S. and Britain should just get right out of the scene. They should give Botha and company a deadline like next Tuesday and say, 'This is the end of the road. We're getting...
Another protracted African conflict was heating up in the breakaway Ethiopian province of Eritrea. In the first phase of a major offensive to smash the province's 17-year-old independence movement, Ethiopian forces, backed by Cuban and Soviet technicians and advisers, in August succeeded in reopening the road to the key city of Agordat. There, government troops had been pinned down by guerrillas of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) since late this summer...
...eminently practical birthday present: money. Westminster, which has ruled the island since 1805, signed over $20 million, half of that a no-strings grant, the other half an interest-free loan. Next in line were the French, who vowed to build a sports stadium, a jetport and a better road connecting the capital of Roseau (pop. 20,000) with the island's sole landing field, 36 jolting miles away. The U.S. anted up 250 reference volumes for the national library...
...Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...
Foxes are always the first to arrive, lured by the scent of horse meat, beef and freshly killed chicken left at the edge of a desert road. Soon they are followed by other predators: wolves, jackals, hyenas and occasionally even a leopard. One after another, they partake of the roadside feast, while ignoring the nearby human observers. This remarkable nocturnal ritual is repeated once every two weeks at five locales in the bleak wastes of the Negev and Judean deserts, supervised by Israel's Nature Reserve Authority...