Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most important-and most surprising-among the victims was Lieut. General Aman Michael Andom, 50, the moderate and popular front man for the Provisional Military Council, who for the preceding ten weeks had been chief of state, head of government and Defense Minister. Known as the "Desert Lion" because of his successful campaigns against the Somalis during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn...
...helped the R. A.F. deploy and husband its forces until the Luftwaffe, crippled too, abandoned the attempt. It was Ultra and not General Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British in the North African desert war. As the D-day landings approached in Normandy, Ultra was scrutinized for signs of a Nazi alert; there were none, and Operation Overlord's surprise was complete...
EGYPT, like Syria, was hastily resupplied by Moscow last year. All of the 650 tanks lost in the Sinai desert-more than a third of Cairo's 1,880-tank force -were replaced, along with all the destroyed or captured SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles that proved to be so devastating to the Israeli air force. Egypt, however, is short of spare parts, and it is probably still missing about a dozen of the 150 MIGS that the Israelis shot down. In a move to redress the balance, the Egyptians are getting 36 Mirage V fighter-bombers...
...Little Snobbish. This fall Cohen is writing jokes for the casualty's replacement, Professor Scott Fraser, a more polished lecturer. One example, from a talk on "drive reduction" theories: "When they found a Japanese soldier recently who'd been living alone on a desert island for 29 years unaware World War II was over, he was going steady with a coconut tree he called Shirley...
...Water. After working long morning hours under a high desert sun Wayne would retire to his mobile-home dressing room for a siesta. Kate dunked herself in the icy water of a nearby mountain stream. "Spencer Tracy and John Ford also took lunchtime naps," she said. "My God, it must be exhausting being a strong man." Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN...