Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independence, were cut off from food supplies and threatened with starvation. Luanda was a chaotic scene as people fled the fighting in the slums and suburbs and crowded into the downtown area in search of protection. Thousands of blacks jammed the beaches, waiting for steamers bound for the still tranquil ports in the north, while whites camped at the capital's Craveiro Lopes Airport, clamoring for flights to Lisbon...
...that much left to hide. He has already been described in a nude health-spa romp in New York magazine; Esquire has reported, among other brief encounters, his coupling with the ex-wife of a sex-magazine editor. Talese promises to tell in the book about his surprisingly tranquil domestic life. His wife Nan, a stunningly attractive senior editor at the Manhattan book publishing house of Simon...
...Murders. But Evanston, like many other previously tranquil schools, has fallen victim to a rising tide of school violence across the nation. This spring a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency reported that there are now more than 100 murders in public schools each year, and 70,000 assaults on teachers. It estimated that school vandalism costs $500 million a year-about the amount that is spent on textbooks...
Silence finally fell across Cambodia's battlefields last week after five years of fratricidal fighting that claimed as many as 1 million casualties, leveled once graceful Cambodian cities and scorched the tranquil countryside. Admitting the futility of further resistance, the remaining leaders of the Khmer Republic drove to a prearranged meeting place-Kilometer 6 on Route 5-and there surrendered to officers of the Communist-dominated Khmer Rouge insurgents. Not since Seoul was overrun by North Korean attackers nearly a quarter-century ago had a national capital fallen in combat to Communist troops...
Such are the New Hebrides, a tranquil cluster of 72 islands some 1,000 miles east of Australia. There are no taxes and no newspapers, and only five miles of paved roads on the entire archipelago. Telephone service to the outside world shuts down entirely for two days a week, and the flight-departure board at the main airport often lists the time of Air Pacific's next scheduled flight as "soon as possible." Despite the many things they do not have, however, the New Hebrides have, in effect, two governments, for they are the world's only...