Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous game of hoop...didn't hurt any either...
...within its own country before last week's successful mission to Mogadishu. Grenzschutzgruppe Neun, or Border Protection Group 9, was created five years ago, after a bungled West German rescue attempt led to the Munich massacre of nine Israeli hostages and five of their Palestinian captors. The man chosen to organize a new unit that would combat terrorism was its present commander: Ulrich Wegener, 48, a veteran officer of the federal border police. Wiry and tough, quiet and smart, Wegener saw his first military service as a 15-year-old pressed into Luftwaffe duty in the closing days...
Members of the elite group are chosen from border-police volunteers. They are put through a two-day battery of physical and psychological tests, followed by six months basic training; nine in ten are eliminated. Those that remain must become proficient in swimming, diving and mountain climbing. Among other special training: 140 hrs. of karate. The men spend up to four hours a day practicing with weapons that range from Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolvers to a variety of machine guns and other automatic weapons. At G.S.G. 9 headquarters in St. Augustin, near Bonn, they study the tactics of terrorist...
...finalists were chosen from an initial list of 39 Harvard and 22 Radcliffe candidates, a decline from last year's record 74 Harvard-Radcliffe candidates. Most winners said yesterday they were pleased with their success. Levin said "I'm very flattered and excited." Brad G. Behrman said "I was pleasantly surprised--I really had no idea what sort of chance I had." Michael K. Savit, Crimson sports editor, said "I feel like I just went 4-0 in the Cube predix." Koivumaki said he would announce the winners of the upcoming vote on Monday...
...race is the more nerve-racking because the government has chosen to run it slowly. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has entrusted direction of the economy to a respected but politically inexperienced professor, Raymond Barre, 53, whom he named both Prime Minister and Finance Minister in August 1976. The jovial, rotund Barre, who likes to describe himself as "a square man living in a round body," wrote the textbook used most often in French economics classrooms. Since he moved to his offices at the Hotel Matignon, Barre has applied textbook economics to France's problems...