Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real Battle of Monmouth ended inconclusively, with the British withdrawing, then slipping away from the colonials and marching to New York. Still, the battle, in which some 200 British and 100 colonial soldiers died, was an important psychological victory for Washington's troops. The young American Army had faced its foes in the 18th century European fashion, a standup, line-vs.-line fight, and held the field...
With participants willingly spending their own money to relive the past -British uniforms alone cost up to $600 -New Jersey's American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Commission ended up spending only $25,000 on the battle, far less than expected. The agency provided 75 Port-O-Sans for the crowd, a convenience not available in the 18th century, and the New Jersey National Guard served free meals from its field kitchens. Thus the commission set a timely and unusual example for governmental units in the 20th century rebellion against high government spending. Because the agency used up only...
...violence began in San'a, the sleepy capital of increasingly prosperous North Yemen, which is heavily subsidized by Saudi Arabia. North Yemen had been taking tentative steps toward union with the Marxist regime in impoverished South Yemen, which was a British colony until leftist insurgents gained its freedom in 1967. Seeking to kindle the spirit of friendship, North Yemen's President Ahmed Hussein Ghashmi, 37, prepared to welcome an envoy sent by his South Yemen counterpart, Salem Robaye Ali, 43. Unknown to the visiting diplomat, however, his black leather briefcase, which actually contained Robaye Ali's proposals...
...enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...
...Elim massacre-the most savage assault on whites in Rhodesia's history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders...