Word: continentality
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GERMAN CINEMA has pretty much emerged over the past few years from the considerable shadow once cast over the Continent by its French and Italian rivals. As names like Fassbinder and Rohmer wind their way into the consciousness of committed American moviegoers, the enthusiastic receptions accorded their latest works have...
Carter's early forcefulness on the human rights issue drove six Latin countries -Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil-to reject U.S. military assistance rather than agree to prepare "report cards" for Washington on human rights. The Administration hopes to keep relations from deteriorating further-without, however...
"We're just sitting on our asses," Jimmy Carter barked into his Oval Office telephone. On the receiving end, Vice President Walter Mondale listened patiently. Though both men had been in their jobs for less than three months at the time, the President was irate that few new U.S...
Hard Hit. All three networks were back on the air within six to eleven minutes after they had been blacked out. At CBS and NBC, emergency power systems atop the Empire State Building were quickly activated. ABC, lacking such a system, had to switch its broadcast feed clear across the...
Soviet Intervention. Back at Libreville, what was notably missing from the OAU summit was the customary volume of anti-West rhetoric. In a stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only...