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Word: sao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty for resources and planning, the old white elephant will probably be standing when we are all dead and gone. On other fronts, yesterday was quiet. An SDS rally to support a boycott of GM drew about 50 people to the steps of Mem Church. A man in Sao Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers of Kabul, Afghanistan, appropriated 500 coppers to build two cupolas with minarets. And at his dacha in the Ukraine, Nikita S. Krushchev passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall to Remain Standing | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

Died. Henrique Galvao, 75, longtime Portuguese dissident who drew world attention in 1961 when he and his comrades commandeered the luxury liner Santa Maria in protest against the regime of Premier Antonio Salazar; in Sao Paulo, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1970 | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...well-paid Western pilots who flew into Uli for relief agencies did so at night to avoid marauding MIG-17s and Ilyushin-28 bombers, supplied to Nigeria by the Russians and flown by Egyptian pilots. Food planes from the Portuguese island of Sao Tome, Red Cross flights and gunrunners from Libreville in Gabon circled over the airstrip only briefly, then dropped swiftly through the African darkness for bumpy landings during the ten seconds in which the runway lights were flipped on by a camouflaged control tower. A Nigerian night fighter nicknamed "Genocide" tried to pick them off as they landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Secession that Failed | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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