Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two loyalist commandos who died in putting down the rebellion-Lieut. Jorge de Oliveira Coimbra and Corporal Joaquim dos Santos Pires-were given heroes' funerals after their bodies lay in state at a Lisbon church. Coimbra was buried in Oporto, and tens of thousands lined the roads from the...
The trouble is first recorded by sensitive, computerized instruments in the control room of the nuclear power plant. They warn that temperatures inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core...
All of Asia's southern tier, from Afghanistan to Indonesia, is affected by the outbreak. But malaria has struck hardest at the Indian subcontinent. India, which cut malaria cases from a 1947 high of 75 million to only 125,000 by 1965, expects to record 4 million this year...
"The government has been presented with a pistol at its head," Prime Minister Harold Wilson reported to the British House of Commons. He had just been told by John Riccardo, chairman of Chrysler Corp., that if Chrysler United Kingdom Ltd. does not get massive aid -perhaps $210 million-from Wilson...
Still, tens of thousands live in shantytowns around the main cities, there is a 75% illiteracy rate, and annual,per capita income is $400. Whatever the result of Hassan's Saharan foray, those problems will continue to pose a threat to his rule and his life.