Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were attacked by any enemy. At the very most, the Saudis have only 96,500 men in their armed forces and reserves, including 41,000 national guardsmen, who are not considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there...
...constitutional monarchy also enjoys considerable advantages over America's well-intentioned but badly conceived Constitution. The U.S. simply copied the British colonial charters, in which the Governor represented the King, and therefore was also the Chief Executive. If you take away the King and make the Chief Executive the head of state, you get the trouble the U.S. had with Nixon. In other words, the two don't really go together, because the head of state must be beyond criticism, must be someone that everyone trusts and admires...
...thing quite straight: the Queen is not going to abdicate. What is more, everyone would advise her not to, beginning with the Prince of Wales. This idea of abdication is unheard of in British constitutional history. There's no sovereign except Edward VIII who has abdicated. They've either had their heads cut off or been thrown out-as in the case of James II, who wouldn't give up his Roman Catholic connections...
Last week the British government granted Laker permission to offer a similar daily flight between Los Angeles and London for $382 round trip, beginning Sept. 26. This week Laker is adding a Boeing 707 to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 on the New York-London run and doubling daily flights to two. He has two more DC-10s on order and expects to sign up soon for yet another...
Though it occurred only about 15 years ago, the Great Train Robbery belongs to another age. In accordance with longstanding though sadly eroding British tradition, the gang did not use firearms. Their basic field weapon was the cosh or blackjack. For other occasions the arsenal included ax handles, umbrellas reinforced with iron rods, and a gadget that would spray a blinding cloud of flour and pepper from compressed air cylinders...