Word: commando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of national holiday, Egypt celebrated. Special coins had been struck showing a girl, in the garb of ancient Egypt, breaking her chains. Huge banners proclaimed "Evacuation is the Beginning of Reconstruction." Streets were bright with arches, flowers, strings of light and a huge plywood figure of a fedayeen commando loomed high over the sidewalks. Loudspeakers blared patriotic music to the" milling crowds in the Cairo streets, and at night fireworks arched high over the dark Nile...
Free & Equal. The society's real aim is refurbishing ideas. It was founded in 1949 by Colonel David Stirling, 40, a hard-driving bachelor who led a commando unit in daring raids against Rommel behind German lines in the western desert. Settling in Rhodesia after the war, Scottish-born Stirling was shocked by the rising racial hatred he saw everywhere. He decided to do something about it "before total catastrophe overtakes both white and non-white societies." His plan: a society of all Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain...
Even in Detroit, where unsteady race relations make a police "commando squad" necessary, indignant voices were raised for Rouse. Detroit University's Father John E. Coogan, S.J., chairman of the city's Commission on Community Relations, urged the Rouse family to "refuse to yield to violence." Rouse, who said he had always lived in white neighborhoods without trouble, confessed he had no stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick...
...killing you. Spare not their women and children, for they spare not yours." In recent months, following some 40 protests by France, Nasser has toned down the broadcasts to French North Africa. But now Nasser wanted to know: Why is France sending jets to Israel? Nasser assured Pineau: "No commando destined for Algeria has been trained in an Egyptian camp during the past several months." Said Pineau wanly: "A very interesting assurance...
...dark at last in the Kyrenia Mountains of Cyprus and the British Commando officer has no appetite for the task he must now perform. He assembles his squad for a patrol, but his mind is on another night like this, 14 years ago. Then he was the hunted, a fugitive from the Nazis who had poured into Greece. Three young Greeks sheltered him, then carried him in a tiny caique away from Greece to safety. Now the officer is the hunter, and it is time to hunt down Greeks as brave and as passionate for freedom as those who saved...