Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French-built Mystères in a dogfight with U.S.-made F-86 jets of the Pakistan air force. With peasant wisdom Sharif decided, "The Indians must be losing in Kashmir. Now they are trying to bother us down here." He urged the young men of the village to arm themselves with clubs and search through the cane and cornfields for downed Indian pilots...
...terms were cohesive indeed. The Communists' principal, and unacceptable, condition is simply that "the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front-the Viet Cong's political arm. In other words, as Hanoi sees it, South Viet Nam should be free to elect its own government, provided that the government is Communist...
...mark was found on the skull, so surgeons had to drill holes in it and search for the trouble. They discovered a mass of blood and drained it. The mechanic eventually recovered his mental alertness but, four years later, he still has only limited use of his right arm...
...good Moslem should, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Clad in white penitential clothing and with one arm and shoulder bare, Nasser entered the sacred Kaaba, housing the ancient Black Stone, and prayed in each of the enclosure's four corners...
...finds a friend, a bright-eyed young cripple named Ratso, and for the first time in his life he is happy. Not for long. The cripple dies of general debilitation, and as the book ends Joe sits staring vacantly at the little twisted corpse. "And then he put his arm around Ratso. He knew this wasn't doing Ratso any good. It was for himself. Because he was scared now, scared to death...