Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colonel, U.S.A...
...police, faced charges of torture. Witness after witness testified that within a week of Papadopoulos' April 21, 1967, coup more than 8,000 had been arrested. Of these, 6,188 were banished into exile. Another 3,500 were subsequently sent to ESA torture centers. One prosecution witness, former Colonel Spyridon Moustaklis, 49, was unable to answer questions because brain damage caused by beatings had left him mute and semiparalyzed. Communicating by groans and gestures, glaring at the defendants, Moustaklis clumsily tore his shirt open to reveal the scars that marked his body. Said his wife: "We have a little...
...world's practitioners of the ancient aristocratic sport of fencing, none was more flamboyant than the Polish star Jerzy Pawlowski. Winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and three-time world fencing champion in saber, the handsome 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Polish army was the undisputed sports hero of Poland. So great was the country's pride in Pawlowski's prowess that Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek is said to have brought the fencer with him to an informal meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
...that the champion had been arrested "in connection with the suspicion that he has committed crimes against the basic interests of the state." Other Polish sports figures and a number of Polish general staff officers are also believed to have been arrested, including a track star, Marek Bedynski, a colonel and two majors...
...indifference to language is also a result of Viet Nam and Watergate. An accumulation of lies inevitably corrupts the language in which the lies are told. After an American bombing raid in Cambodia, a U.S. Air Force colonel complained to reporters: You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing It's not bombing! It's air support." The classic of the war, of course came from the American officer who explained: "It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." In Nixon's White House, concealing information became "containment" I was wrong...