Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was risky enough, but young Wojtyla was also active in the anti-Nazi resistance. Jerzy Zubrzycki, a high school classmate of Wojtyla's who is now a sociology professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, says of those years: "He lived in danger daily of losing his life. He would move about the occupied cities taking Jewish families out of the ghettos, finding them new identities and hiding places. He saved the lives of many families threatened with execution." Meanwhile he helped organize and acted in the underground "Rhapsody Theater," whose anti-Nazi and patriotic dramas boosted Polish...
From a hidden position on the southern shore of the Zambezi River, Rhodesian soldiers near the town of Kanyemba last week saw about 100 armed guerrillas in camouflage fatigues, paddling in rubber boats across the river-the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. The Rhodesians opened fire, and Canberra and Hawker Hunter jets soon joined the battle. So began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid...
...targets of the five-day military operation were two camps in Mozambique that have been used as supply and staging areas for the guerrilla forces of Robert Mugabe, Marxist leader of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union). Waves of aging Canberra, Vampire and Hunter warplanes, followed by transports and helicopters carrying black and white troops, first hit a base near Chimoio, about 54 miles within Mozambique, and then attacked a camp near Tembue, 132 miles inside the border. According to Rhodesian officials, the attacks were extraordinarily successful, killing at least 1,200 guerrillas and destroying some 40 trucks and massive quantities...
...confab was interrupted by an incessant stream of phone calls from down-at-the heels disco acts. "Hello, Mr. Murdoch, this is Gladys Knight." The voice was unmistakable. She was muttering something about her new solo effort--"Midnight Train to Canberra," I think she said--and how the Pips were a thing of the past. Rupe told her to forget music for the moment: "Honey, I've got bigger things planned for you...Ever hear of New West...
...Australian relationship, while always close, has had its ups and downs in recent years, especially after Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pulled Australian troops out of Viet Nam. After Eraser's Liberal-National Country party coalition trounced the Laborites last December, the new P.M. immediately moved to bring Canberra more into line with American foreign policy...