Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas and were wrapped in gray blankets with their hospital records pinned to their chests. All were Egyptians captured by Israel in last month's bitter Sinai fighting; they were going home aboard one of the few direct flights between Tel Aviv and Cairo to take place in 25 years. "This is my last flight. I will not fight anymore," said Muzbach Jaber Abu Halbia, 30, from a stretcher. As he was helped aboard, Egyptian Mohammed...
...prisoner exchange, if it goes well, will take at least a week. Even some hardened veterans of the Middle East conflict were impressed that Egypt and Israel had arranged the transfer without bitter weeks of wrangling. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan went to Lod to greet the first flights of returning P.O.W.s. "At last," he said, "we have arranged things by talks like human beings instead of by tank fire and exploding grenades...
...agreement ten months ago, by Saigon's count more than 50,000 North and South Vietnamese have been killed in a series of small but bloody skirmishes. In the Central Highlands province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week and filed this report...
...stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military insists that the province will not fall. Others are not so sure...
...commanding 64% of the legislature on his side and his political opposition is both divided and ineffectual. The immediate danger is that Perón's get-tough policy against the left could backfire, plunging Argentina into a bitter round of ideological warfare. In recent weeks, there have been new clashes within the Justicialist movement between left-and right-wing Peronists. Last week the armed forces came under attack. A member of the general staff of the infantry was kidnaped by the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which announced that attacks against the "repressive armed forces" will...