Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special, highly sensitive listening devices for locating the terrorists within the plane and 2) a supply of British "stun grenades," which explode without scattering metal fragments, but can immobilize an enemy for about six seconds with their sound and flash. The stun grenades-along with two experts from Britain's crack Special Air Service regiment-were soon en route to Dubai...
Since terrorism in general and skyjacking in particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include...
...Also banned were seven white activists and journalists associated with the black cause. One of South Africa's most outspoken white journalists -Editor Donald Woods of the East London Daily Dispatch-was told of his banning as he prepared to leave the country on a speaking tour in Britain...
...characters in The Ice Age become linked through their involvement in the property-development boom and bust in England during the mid-seventies. Len Wincobank, the whiz kid property developer, along with Maureen, his secretary-girl friend, have been unashamedly "raping the city centers of Britain and making millions." His freewheeling charisma pulls in Anthony Keating, the clergyman's son raised to be a cultivated and useless esthete, who revolts against his proper past by leaving his broadcasting job to become a property speculator...
...country with a skilled industrial work force and a scientific establishment that regularly produces Nobel prize winners, a country that invented the Industrial Revolution, be such an economic weakling in the modern world? The American replied by noting that bright young men do not go into business in Great Britain. Commerce is considered vulgar, his British colleague concurred. The ablest young people go into university careers, the civil service or cultivated idleness, but they do not go into business. And England has paid the price...