Word: commando
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...Lisbon newspapers, which had largely become radical-propaganda tracts, were shut down; they will probably not print again until new moderate editors are installed. Strict rules were also promulgated to curb armed civilians, who helped create the atmosphere of anarchy. "An armed civilian is a dead civilian," warned one commando officer. President Costa Gomes even mentioned the possibility of holding parliamentary elections. The left would almost certainly be defeated in the voting, as it was in the election of a constituent assembly last April...
...political acts by the left." Although the best-organized of Portugal's parties, the Communists will now have to deal with a strengthened center and with the greater stature of such men as Scares, Melo Antunes and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, not to mention the new presence of Commando Colonel Neves...
...movements. But since independence day (TIME, Nov. 24), these nations no longer pretend to conceal their activities. Arms, advisers and mercenaries from at least a dozen countries have been pouring into Angola. Even the aging British mercenary, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 55, leader of the fabled Fifth Mercenary Commando that fought in the Congo during the early '60s, seemed to be gearing up for action. Said one of the commandos at Hoare's annual reunion last week in Johannesburg: "There's something in the wind. I believe that negotiations are taking place. We feel there...
...Israeli-Egyptian Sinai agreement has met with expected hostility from Palestinian organizations. Declaring an "emergency situation," P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has scheduled a series of strategy meetings with commando leaders. In an interview last week with TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish, Arafat denounced the accord as "dangerous because it ignores the basic question of Palestine and the cause of the Palestinian people." He was careful, however, to avoid criticizing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...pulp-magazine notions about honor under pressure. Bite the Bullet is made in blatant-indeed, often desperate -imitation of The Professionals, and the character Hackman plays is a virtual reincarnation of Robert Ryan's softspoken, steel-fisted horseman of the previous film. Instead of forming a ragtag commando unit, though, the heroes now make up a party of racers, heading over 700 miles of rugged territory for $2,000 in prize money...