Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, Koster, one of the promising young combat generals in the Army -he was then only 48-became a key figure in a massive attempt to cover up the slaughter. When the story of My Lai broke, Koster was super intendent of West Point, often a steppingstone on the way up to the higher echelons of the Army. He resigned from his post and, after an investigation, was censured and reduced to brigadier general. He later retired from the Army...
Policy questions within Israel, such as whether settlers should be allowed in the occupied territories, have created serious tensions and there have even been incidents of physical combat between soldiers and civilians, which would previously have been considered impossible by most Israelis. In short, for the first time the entire situation of the country is so precarious that many observers, particularly outside Israel, are pessimistic about the state's chances for survival...
...fourth party, the extreme left, consists of a coalition of two Communist splinter parties--one Soviet-oriented, the other autonomous--and the United Democratic Left (EDA), of Elias Eliou. EDA shifted its electoral power toward the Center during the 1960s--partly out of a desire to combat the authoritarian government of the prejunta Caramanlis. Whether it will regain its followers once more remains to be seen. A striking phenomenon in Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance...
This is not to say that Old Times is undramatic. Pinter's, and his characters', absorption with words may supersede movement to a great extent, but the ebb and flow of psychic combat are clearly and forcefully embodied in the interaction. Psychological climaxes are not merely talked about--they take place before...
...parody. He once presented a speaker to his troops by saying: "Men, I want to introduce to you the noblest work of God-a killer!" With his ivory-handled pistols and magnificently bloodthirsty battle speeches, his dashing tank tactics and the almost sinister boyishness with which he rushed into combat ("L'audace, toujours I'audace"), he was probably war's last romantic. "I love wars and am having a fine time," he wrote to his wife Beatrice during the Sicilian campaign. "When it cools off, I am going to have a closeup of the Greek temples...