Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to most of the other Red satellites, political repression in East Germany is getting worse, and even more reminiscent of Nazi tactics. To combat widespread apathy among workers, which this year by the regime's own estimate contributed to $180 million in lost industrial production, the Reds introduced a system of rank-and-file "control teams" with wide powers to crack down on dissidents. At the political prison in Hohenschönhausen near Berlin, a former Nazi forced-labor camp, the Communists recently revived the infamous system of "Kapos"-prisoners hand-picked for cruelty who mete out punishment...
...wound in the President's head and another smaller wound-from the second of the three shots-in his throat. Clark and eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph to record his heartbeat...
...game, it was hardly a game at all. Photographers charged onto the field to conk Milan players with umbrellas; broadcasters bashed Italians with microphones; the Italians retaliated by kicking Santos players in the face, the Brazilians kicked right back. Of the regulation 90 minutes, 39 were spent in furious combat, 51 playing soccer. At last, Santos booted home a penalty shot for a 1-0 victory. Returning home, one of Milan's wounded groaned: "Never in all my soccer days have I seen anything like this...
...Other People. It isn't easy. "No solid food, no coffee, and nothing hot -it's hard to take," says John Havlicheck, a veteran of eleven years in the Marine Corps, combat in Korea, and five years in Folsom Prison, now in for armed robbery. "Food is a lot more important than you think. I dream a lot about food now. But I'm glad to be part of this project. I feel I'm doing something for a lot of people...
Died. General John Reed Hodge, 70, World War II Pacific combat commander, chief of occupation forces in South Korea (1945-48), a veteran of Guadalcanal, Leyte and Okinawa who found himself trying to organize a democracy in chaotic Korea, where he was instrumental in the rise of Syngman Rhee to the presidency, but then grew disenchanted with Rhee's autocratic ways, whereupon Rhee complained of his meddling in local affairs, and three months later he was recalled; of cancer; in Washington...