Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes are pumped by a bellows under the right arm of the player, who must be able to finger and pump at the same time...
...fact, were the six members of the so-called Arm of the Arab Revolution that assaulted OPEC headquarters? Their leader was probably a flamboyantly notorious Latin American terrorist who goes by the name of "Carlos" (see box). Two others, according to Algerian authorities, were Palestinians, and one was Lebanese. Two were European, one an unidentified woman in her early 20s, possibly Irish or English, and the other Hans-Joachim Klein, 28, who worked in a lawyer's office in Frankfurt and associated with radicals...
...lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army, 150 guerrillas-many of them boys and girls in their late teens-attacked the arsenal as most of its 40 troops were sitting down to dinner. Stiff resistance by the defenders and swift reinforcements...
...discontent" among high-level military and civilian officials over the Castro regime's commitment of regular army troops to fight in a foreign conflict. Indeed, a Western official reports that Cuba sent the troops to Angola only "with the greatest reluctance and as a result of Soviet arm twisting." The Soviets feared that the M.P.L.A. would be unable to use the sophisticated weaponry that Moscow was supplying. Since the Russians were unwilling to send in troops themselves, they pressured the Cubans into doing so. But the Cubans have suffered considerable casualties, and their Ilyushin 18 and Bristol Britannia transports...
...Sacramento the following day, Lynette Alice ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, faced sentencing for having tried to shoot Ford with a .45-cal. pistol in the city's Capitol Park last Sept. 5. Fromme, a member of the bizarre "family" of convicted Murderer Charles Manson, carried over her arm the same red robe she had worn on that day, as well as an apple ("For you, your honor," she said when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride noticed it). After U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was full of "hate and violence," Squeaky hurled the apple...