Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backstroker Al Birch, whose clutch win against Army kept Crimson hopes alive late in the meet, will be looking for his second win of the year against a weak Navy backstroke lineup. His performance could once again be decisive...
...CIRCLES is a circular play: in other words, a play that is written in circles: in other words, round. The words are by Gertrude Stein, which means that Gertrude Stein made up the words. Al Carmines is the musical composer, that is, the music was composed by a man called Carmines. A delight is a delight is a delight...
...official press agency described as "a medical checkup." Foreign Minister Hassan Macky also left Yemen, showing up nearly a week early for an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo called to decide on an Arab summit. That left the government in charge of Field Marshal Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched a firing squad execute six suspected Royalist infiltrators, then dragged their bodies to the gates of the city and strung them up on poles...
...including a few MIG-19s-the Republican army is no match for the Royalists' mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil war appeared finally to be reaching the climax that Nasser's intervention had so long managed...
...Al Bersin, Harvard...