Word: armaments
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Closed Ring. As they have built up their armament, the Greek Cypriots have been slowly closing the ring about the Turkish communities by cutting off supplies and setting up roadblocks. In theory, the Turkish Cypriots are at liberty to travel anywhere, but in practice it is difficult. At some roadblocks Turkish Cypriot truck drivers are stopped for tedious "searches," in which their cargoes of fruit or vegetables are unloaded on the ground and sometimes damaged beyond use. No gasoline is allowed into the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. A few Turks make a habit of driving back and forth...
Died. Peter Howard, 56, head of Moral Re-Armament, a onetime British rugby hero turned London Daily Express columnist, who in 1941 went to an M.R.A. meeting intending to ridicule the idea, was so taken with it that he ever after devoted his energies and the profits (some $1,120,000) from twelve moral-re-arming books and 16 plays to the movement, eventually becoming its leader after the death of Founder Frank Buchman in 1961; of pneumonia; in Lima, Peru...
Seagoing Brothels. Elizabeth rewarded him with knighthood, but the King of Spain was less appreciative. He resolved that "England shal smoake," and in 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia sailed north with the mightiest naval armament of the age. According to Hakluyt, there were 30,000 men in 134 ships, among them several seagoing brothels and 64 enormous floating forts. The British fleet made a far less impressive array: 12,000 men in 100 ships, and beside the Spanish galleons the British men of war looked like overdecorated dinghies. But the British ships had the advantage of "dexteritie," and most...
...until early March of 1962 and heavy infiltration from that time. The testimony of universally respected reporters, like Bill Mauldin, that the Viet Cong attacking Pleiku carried documents proving beyond doubt that they were part of a special mission form the North, is simply beyond dispute. Eighty tons of armament from the North were captured at Vung Ry Bay alone last Saturday. That the Pleiku attackers were not sheltered by the peasants because they were from the North proves may peasants are loyal...
...born leader; with characteristic generosity, Lewis made Clark joint leader of the expedition. To meet the special requirements of the journey, Lewis invented a collapsible canoe, a powdered soup and a sturdy lightweight rifle that was promptly adopted by the army for all infantrymen. The expedition's armament was so awesome that during the entire trip no Indian nation dared risk battle with Lewis' main force...