Word: beheadings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zealand last week there was practically nothing but comment. Naomi complained in a newspaper interview that her husband had developed a "fantasy thing" for his 37-year-old speechwriter, Margaret Pope. Then David's 80-year-old mother Phoebe piped up, pronouncing herself "so angry I could behead him with my crutch." For his part, Lange declared that he planned to live with Pope and joked of his mum's dismay that she was "writing a soap opera called Lays of Our Dave...
...where 19th century missionaries found ready converts among the territory's tribes. Some 100,000 people attended a Mass and, to the Pontiff's obvious delight, members of the Konyak tribe danced and brandished their daos, the flat-ended machetes that until 1967 were used by the clan to behead enemies...
Generational upheaval is as characteristic of politics as it is of life. All through American history, the young behead the father generation, and the greater the triumphs of the fathers, the longer their influence lasts. The Revolutionary fathers led this nation for almost 50 years, until Andrew Jackson displaced them in 1828. The Civil War leaders lasted almost as long-until Theodore Roosevelt, a child in the Civil War, replaced them in 1901. In 1960 the Supreme Commander of all Allied forces in Europe was succeeded by a naval lieutenant of the same war. That war generation still holds...
...that they really disappeared. Even the powerful Argentine generals, with so many instruments of annihilation at their fingertips, could not actually make people disappear. They did what they could: abduct, torture, shoot, behead and bury their enemies in mass and secret graves. What they hoped most recently, since ending their "dirty war" of antiterrorism. was that the issue of the desaparecidos would itself disappear. If the newly elected President of Argentina, Raul Alfonsin, had any sense of custom or propriety, that is precisely what would have happened. But Alfonsin seemed unaware that one does not put the military on trial...
Fortunately, settling scores is secondary to Smith's principal task: lucidly explaining and defending the SALT process at a time when it and its future are in considerable jeopardy. Smith has his regrets. He argues that the U.S. made a tragic mistake in passing up the opportunity to behead the hydra of multiple warheads...