Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egypt and her chief allies, Syria and Jordan, lost three-quarters of their air and armored forces and the economic wherewithal to buy new arms. Egypt also lost the cream of its officer corps. The Soviet Union, anxious to increase its influence in the Middle East, stepped into the breach with new planes, tanks and guns. Now the Arabs' military machine has been 80% refurbished and considerably upgraded in quality. Once again, it heavily outnumbers Israel's armed forces in men and firepower. Last week London's prestigious Institute for Strategic Studies estimated that Egypt alone...
...runs of three newspapers, seized the editions of four magazines. It has also brought criminal charges against seven journalists and sentenced two others to jail-all for violating the purportedly liberalized law. To their chagrin, newsmen found that the government could hold them or their publications accountable for any breach of a vague and all-embracing clause that demands respect for truth, morality, public order and the family honor of all Spaniards...
...government must be strong enough to deal with spreading student unrest and labor agitation for better working conditions. And lurking in the shadows is the Communist Party, strengthened by votes from disgruntled Socialists in the last elections and more than willing to step into the breach. Moro himself regards an alliance with the Communists as unthinkable, but more leftist Christian Democrats see it as a way out of the dilemma. Despite the Communist specter, the Socialists seem determined to hold out on the Christian Democrats, defying all of Nenni's pleas to cooperate. Explained Socialist Luigi Mariotti, Minister...
...remarkably swift reaction of the city's 50,000 government defenders. Saigon's civilian dead numbered only a few hundred, less than one-twentieth of those at Tet. And by week's end an estimated 2,500 Communists had died in their attempt to breach the capital's defenses...
Today all of Eastern Europe is seething. The primary battleground are those of art and letters, but once the initial breach is made on that front there is no holding back--for culture is as related to the political process as teeth are to eating...