Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even been founded when he was born on Oct. 26, 1919. His father, Reza Khan, was a soldier's son who did not learn to read and write until he was an adult. Reza Khan started as a noncommissioned officer in the Persian army, rose to colonel, and in 1921 led a military revolt that finally ousted the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Even before he had seized the bejeweled Peacock Throne- for himself, he chose Pahlavi, one of the ancient languages of Persia, as his dynastic name...
...tropical hell of Vietnam--fighting a war with no strategy beyond slaughtering as many Viet Cong as possible, deploying awesomely lethal and destructive technology but without the will to wield it effectively. The war was run by "four star clowns fighting in a four star circus" as Colonel Kurz bitterly notes at the film...
...topnotch salesman who bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken business for $2 million and in a stock-swap deal sold it for $21 million, Brown did not do as well in selling himself. He ducked the usual political chores like shaking hands at county courthouses and fish fries. "We have a computer that tells me which hands to shake," he explained...
...standards, last week's chaos was all too routine. In a country that has had 188 coups in the past 154 years (and once had three heads of state in a single 24-hour period), the most notable thing about the overthrow of President Walter Guevara Arze by Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch was its timing. It came just days after U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had urged Bolivia's leading politicians to support the country's first civilian government after a decade of military rule...
...behind Clementine's correct facade was a heroine worthy of Jane Austen, as her daughter Mary Soames reveals in this fluent, dispassionate biography. The daughter of Colonel Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier, her upper-class but financially precarious parents, Clementine was a shy and teary child. But by the time she married Winston, she had blossomed as one of London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when...