Word: enfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mujahidin, which in Afghanistan's Dari language means roughly "holy warriors," are armed mainly with shotguns and ancient Enfield rifles, and thus are no match for the Taraki regime's Soviet-equipped 80,000-man army. But the rebellion has spread to 15 of the country's 28 provinces, and while guerrilla activity is most intense in the remote areas bordering on Iran in the west and Pakistan in the east, the regime has been forced to tighten security everywhere. Foreign diplomats in Kabul reckon that more than 12,000 political prisoners have been jailed. Major intersections...
...harshly over the next four years. At the peak of the fighting, the Shah supplied helicopters and pilots to help 70,000 Pakistani soldiers put down the rebellion of 55,000 bearded, turbaned Muslim guerrillas, who were mostly armed with local versions of Britain's Edwardian-vintage Lee-Enfield rifle. Since then, the Baluch have been relatively quiet. But members of a Marxist Baluchistan People's Liberation Front have found sanctuary in Afghanistan, and resentment of Pakistan's unfulfilled promises of greater freedom lingers. So too does concern among some Western analysts that future upheaval in Baluchistan...
...forces that protected them with offshore shelling. Ranged against them were nearly 15,000 Greek Cypriot troops, plus a Greek Cypriot reserve force that came into battle dressed in everything from blue jeans to World War II helmets and armed with anything from shotguns to ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank...
...Enfield, Conn...
Died. Padraic Colum, 90, a figure in the turn-of-the-century Irish literary renaissance that included James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and Sean O'Casey; of a stroke; in Enfield, Conn. He was brought up, he said, "where waifs, strays and tramps congregated, and was entertained by the gossip and history of old men and old women who were survivals from an Ireland that had disappeared." Joyce, in Ulysses, credited the gnomelike storyteller with "that strange thing called genius." Yet towering Irish writers like Joyce himself partially eclipsed the less assertive talent of Colum. His literary legacy...