Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat the Carlists and other anti-Basque elements in Spain, a 28-year-old Basque attorney, Sabino Arrana, founded the Basque Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1893. During his ten-year fight for the restoration of independence he was jailed innumerable times and after repeated hunger strikes to protest maltreatment, he was weakened to the point of death. He died...
...best-equipped of the three forces, providing it with ample supplies of rockets, heavy artillery and missiles (including the hand-held SA-7 to deal with air strikes). Russian technicians, as well as some North Vietnamese, have arrived in Angola, and at least 400 Cubans are serving in combat with the M.P.L.A. as advisers. (The Cubans tried to pass themselves off as mulattoes from the Cape Verde Islands-a flimsy charade since they speak Spanish, not Portuguese.) The Portuguese government, though nominally neutral in the struggle, has also leaned toward the M.P.L.A., partly because M.P.L.A. Leader Neto is a longtime...
...Frelimo seems singularly well-equipped for a strategy of cooperation with and reliance on the rural sector to combat the problems of poverty, illiteracy and the lack of skilled personnel that face most third-world nations. The areas controlled by Frelimo before Portugal's decision to renounce its African colonies were indeed organized on a collective basis, and the villagers were involved in the development of those areas. Frelimo ran schools and hospitals in the liberated provinces even while it was mobilizing to fight the Portuguese armies, and the peasant loyalty it won then seems not to have been eroded...
...reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...
...world acknowledges, the show of force worked. But the operation proved costly: 18 Marines were killed in action; 23 airmen died in a helicopter crash on their way to the combat zone. The author seems to beg some of the larger questions raised by the rescue: Would the Cambodians have released their prisoners if the U.S. had demonstrated less power? How serious were the Cambodians about holding their captives...