Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reinforcements, picked up the wounded, flew off to return with a new load. For five days last week the battle raged as French troops and paratroopers tried to root the rebels out of caves in the cliffs. At battle's end more than 100 jellaghas were dead. So were some 40 Frenchmen...
...beginnings in the Constantine department 18 months ago, it has spread the length and width of Algeria. Last week French authorities announced the estimated casualties to date: 3,724 jellaghas killed, 2,000 captured. French losses: 672 soldiers and policemen killed, approximately the same number missing and presumed dead. Some 1,300 civilians have also died in terrorist attacks or reprisal killings. Reporters on the spot insist that there have been many more deaths than official sources chose to report-chiefly uncounted Moslems killed in reprisal for terrorist attacks...
...Steiner tries to put it, "By himself a man is scrap iron." The other is that courage has a logic (or a lunacy) all its own: "To fight for a conviction does not require heroism. Heroism begins where the meaninglessness of the sacrifice remains the last, only message the dead can leave behind." You Mustn't Bawl. The simple footslogger passes this test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist Heinrich's officers are petty martinets, Nazi careerists, or weary Wehrmacht regulars who have long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them...
...Communism's strange and dark world, unmasking yesterday's lie does not establish the truth of today's correction. More is involved in this great upheaval than a pious desire to redress the memory of dead comrades. The outside world can only guess at what conflict of motives inside the Kremlin drives its leaders to a reckless unraveling of the past, but does know that it is a dangerous game-the kind that usually calls for victims...
...Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes on the fantastic events in which, trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish's eye, which she tried to swallow in order to summon up strange powers) and the dull independent future, symbolized by her dull, enlightened father, who talks like an instructor in social science...