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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau is "Portuguese Guinea") as well as Mozambique and Angola experience is explained. Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau are categorized by Europeans as "Colonies" of Portugal. Portugal is a very poor country with few natural resources. She is able to export very little. In order to maintain an economic position above bankruptcy, she must depend upon external aid for support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supports her to a large extent (especially military) but she receives the bulk of her support from Africa. By stealing the resources of these countries, maintaining political control over them and preventing...

Author: By Nancy Irving, | Title: Guinea and Imperialism | 12/15/1970 | See Source »

...city, and an end to the SST project will inevitably mean an end of employment for some of the 4,800 now working on it. Aside from that localized effect, proponents have consistently argued that the U.S. must build the estimated $40 million plane to maintain its world leadership in commercial aircraft sales (now 85% of the world market). They fear that the British-French version, the Concorde, or the Russians' TU-144, will take over the supersonic field if the U.S. withdraws, and insist that increasingly speedier planes are a technologically inevitable advance in a world committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Congress: Score One for Persistence | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...merely radical and 'of the soil' but also Latin; the Panthers, with their leather pieces, Afros, shades, and shoot-outs; and the Red Indians, who, of course, had always seemed primitive, exotic, and romantic." And yet while supporting her cause, the Radically Chic hostess has also to maintain the proper apartment, the proper address, and, of course, the proper servants. At best, the "radicalism" of the "chic" is a tempered sympathy, complicated by social striving, misguided liberalism, and, in the case of the significant Jewish involvement, memory of an analogous oppression...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hour of Tom Wolfe Chic-er Than Thou | 12/10/1970 | See Source »

Members of the Center continue to be ready at any time to debate under auspices which do offer a real forum for serious discussion. Specifically this means: (1) an independent sponsor; (2) agreed upon procedures; and (3) an impartial moderator to maintain those procedures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail CFIA STATEMENT | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

Cassavetes has previously been criticized for indulging himself by allowing his scenes to run on too long and too aimlessly. Husbands' scenes go on even longer than those in Faces, but they maintain a perfect emotional pitch. Cassavetes lets Gus, Archie and Harry reveal themselves at their own rate. They become by turns boyish, noisy, sloppy, silly, sentimental and obnoxious, but never less than human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Never Less Than Human | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

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