Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security force. Najibullah, the former chief of KHAD, the Afghan secret police, is trying to win over the mujahedin by promoting capitalism and elections and by playing up his adherence to the Muslim faith. His efforts have not impressed the rebels, but he evidently hopes to gain credibility in Western eyes...
...Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated in Late Neanderthal, while his wife dallies in Heidi's Hideaway, and an Elvis impersonator lip-syncs La donna e mobile. In another Western hotel, Tristan and Isolde execute a quickie marriage and a slow double suicide. Director Franc Roddam knows that Las Vegas and Liebestod were made for each other...
Gonzalez said other governments shared his ideal of parity with the United States, nothing that the European Economic Community's heads of state recently convened in Brussels to set in motion a plan for cooperation to improve the international status of Western Europe as a whole...
While much of East Africa is afflicted by drought and famine, the continent's northern and western regions are coping with a different tribulation: locusts. Billions of the ravenous insects have swept across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and are moving into Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. Aided by heavy rains that facilitate breeding, the swarms have grown into the worst such plague in 30 years...
...international group of technical experts and field staff, led by the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, is fighting the pests. The U.S., Western Europe and the Soviet Union have donated a total of $30 million for pesticides and field operations, but F.A.O. officials say $150 million more is needed. "If the plague gets out of control, it will spread to East Africa and the Near East," warns an F.A.O. official. "It could be a disaster...