Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco was disrupted last October. Linking arms and singing We Shall Overcome, 27 Army prisoners staged a sitdown protest. An hour later, they were hauled off to their cells, charged with mutiny - one of a baker's dozen of crimes ranging from murder to rape punishable by death under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...special nightmare for supply officers. Gasoline, for transport and collapsible Yukon stoves, had first priority, far ahead of ammunition. Next came rations: each infantryman must tuck in a formidable 5,000 calories of food a day to replace heat lost by his body. Water was another life-or-death commodity. Ski troopers in the desertlike dry cold require between three and five quarts of water daily. While equipment designers have achieved some success in producing insulated canteens and tanks to transport water into the field, the delay caused by a flat tire can turn an entire battalion's supply...
...magicians threatened to hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his father's wartime death in the Libyan city. Said he: "All we want is recognition, then we'll show what we can do. If they want spells, we'll show them...
...particularly interesting lead was provided by a letter that Markovic. wrote, shortly before his death, to his brother Aleksander, a Trieste businessman and once captain of the yacht of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. In that letter Stevan told his brother that "if anything happens to me, address yourself to Alain Delon, to his wife and to his associate Francois Marcantoni, a real gangster . . ." Police seized Marcantoni, once linked with the Corsican Mafia, and began putting him through a long series of interrogations that are still going on. So far, however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want...
...solution in view? Indian Express Columnist Nandan Kagal warned that India seemed engaged in a "dance of death" and that "the prospects of In dian unity seem bleaker today than at any time since Indian independence." Times of India Editor Sham Lai, in a signed editorial-page column, said that "a poor country of India's size cannot cope with its problems unless it learns to place the national interest above every parochial interest." Government officials, however, seemed intent on ducking decisions. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan confined himself to saying that he considered the Bombay uproar "most unfortunate...