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...blow. It followed by a bare week his own application of the Soviet veto to an almost identically worded resolution during a 13 to 2 vote in the Security Council. Only a day before the Afghan resolution, in fact, Troyanovsky had used another veto-the Soviet Union's 114th-to stave off an otherwise successful U.S. drive to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran...
...Century-Fox studio, where final cuts in the film were being made. "There were no director's luncheons at the Brown Derby," says Rademaekers. "Instead, it was 'lunch' at 3 a.m. in a hash house, then back to the studio to follow Reel 12 for the 114th time, with Lucas painstakingly going over the sounds of music, footsteps and explosions...
...theater or concerts, and occasionally he indulged in a bit of mountain climbing. About the only excess that some Müncheners objected to in Defregger was the fondness he bore for his former military connections. He celebrated Mass for the annual reunions of his old army outfit, the 114th Jäger (Sharpshooter) division, and regaled them with rousing, nostalgic sermons. "What the dust of the Russian steppes, the fields of the Caucasus, what the bursting of the grenades have wrought," he once told them proudly, "will withstand the pragmatic materialism of our time." Last week, though, Defregger...
...limitations expired in 1959. Döpfner, who shocked many Catholics by admitting that he had known about Defregger's military history all along, said he was convinced that "according to international law, no criminal action has taken place." He also reminded his Munich flock that the 114th, an antipartisan outfit with a reputation for ruthlessness, had been engaged in "an especially dangerous withdrawal operation . . . It is almost impossible for us outsiders to identify ourselves with the situation during a partisan war." Indeed, the 114th Division had become so brutal, one veteran recalled, that anyone who refused an order...
...perhaps more? Such a move would reduce the sterling drain, but it would make it harder for British businessmen to borrow money, and thus unsettle the economy more. The decision is largely up to Leslie K. O'Brien, who took office last week as the bank's 114th governor...