Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued to wage hit-and-run attacks against troops in Amritsar. They also looted shops, set fires and killed civilians. An additional 100 Sikh extremists surfaced in Rajasthan, a state near the Pakistani border, where they called upon Sikh members of the army to rebel. Some of them did defect, while other Sikhs apparently donned army uniforms in an attempt to infiltrate and disrupt the front-line troops that shield India against potential attacks from its bitter enemy, Pakistan. The rebellion was swiftly quashed...
...suffered from rickets. Several fingers are missing. A large open wound covers one knee, and the smiling lips are bitten raw. He looks for all the world like a battered child, but only nature is to blame for his condition. He was born with an extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from things that were hot or dangerous. His bones and joints are misshapen because he pounded them too hard when he walked or ran. His knee had ulcerated from crawling...
...Austria toward the end of the 1930s, Jewishness is a defect; there can be no denying such a truth. But life itself is far from perfect, and there is no reason to despair because of that. Perhaps the fault is correctable, a matter of inflamed nerves, bad habits, insufficient exercise. A few months in clean mountain air should help. Early bedtime, rise at dawn. Plain food. Hard work. Early morning runs. Reform is possible. Anything is possible...
...have come to the mountain because their lives have fallen apart: they have lost jobs, perhaps, or were embarrassments to their families. They are uneasy, but not really frightened, and certainly not indignant. No one, including the leader Balaban, thinks of protesting against abuse and prejudice. Other groups have defects too, admits one guest who is stalwartly trying to rid himself of tainted habits by the prescribed self-help routines. "But their defects are healthy. People say that the Austrians are heavy drinkers. Of course they are, but that, if it can be called a defect...
...Olympic sites and to distribute 500,000 leaflets. A small squadron of propaganda planes was to buzz the city, each pulling a banner having 5-ft.-high letters, with exhortations like STOP THE GENOCIDE IN AFGHANISTAN or REMEMBER KAL 007. The coalition planned to rent billboards to encourage Soviet defections ("Wish to defect? Telephone ..."), and some 500 "safe houses" in the Los Angeles area were said to be ready to receive the defectors...