Word: african
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like so many African crises before it, the Polisario dispute in the Sahara between Morocco and Algeria has caused the Carter Administration an inordinate amount of worry. As in such similarly intricate problems of the recent past that involved Zaire, Angola and the Ethiopian-Somali fighting in the Horn of Africa, the Administration has been sharply divided over how to protect its improving relations with the Third World while at the same time countering rising Soviet influence...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland Charmed Lives, Michael Korda Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe The White Album, Joan Didion Zebra, Clark Howard
Wilson said stormy conditions on the day the flashes were sighted might have dissipated the resulting radioactive fallout. The South African government said this week that it had detected no radiation from the area where the alleged explosion took place
John N. DeBoice, vice-president of Continental Illinois' corporate communication division, said yesterday Continental, although reluctant to rule out making loans to the South African government, has not lended to the government "for quite a while...
Harvard holds certificates in Continental despite its unrestrictive policy because the bank is not currently lending to the South African government, Siguler said. "Once we find that it is making loans, we'll let the investment mature or immediately sell it," he said...