Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first tremors began in the parched, rock-ribbed mountains of western Sicily last week, most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their hilltop town. There, among their goats and grapevines, they waited in the chilly night for the danger to pass. At 3 a.m. the earth rolled again, at first gently, then with a sickening sway. Before their eyes, Salaparuta crumbled apart like a child's sand castle. Within 30 seconds, the nine-century-old vineyard town was little more than dust. Left standing over the moonlit rubble...
...Much of western Sicily was turned into a giant refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Siciliani nervously slept outdoors even in such relatively unscathed cities as Palermo, because aftershocks continued to be felt for days. At the quake's epicenter, the homeless made tents of tarpaulin, huddled by bonfires, and waited for the government to distribute food and medicine, much of it contributed by the U.S. and Britain. Then, as if nature had not already done its worst, violent rains and winds lashed the quake area at week's end, turning the refugee encampments into quagmires and halting...
...Kremlin also moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
...came, for Gehlen was a furtive quarry. He allowed no pictures to be taken (the only postwar photograph of him was a sneak shot taken in 1957), traveled under aliases, continually switched the license plates on his cars, and was known by sight only to a handful of top Western officials. Last week the West German government announced that its master spy will retire in April, when he reaches...
...Once this 'bliss consciousness' has been reached and the mind is free to wander in and out of it, there is no reason for any more suffering," the Guru said. True happiness and "harmony with the cosmic law of nature" are attained, and the stress and strain of Western civilization will be relieved, he added...