Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something far more banal was also at play, however-an invincibly ignorant pride. One of the saddest of the new books is called Against Stalin and Hitler (John Day; $8.95). The author, a former Eastern Front officer named Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt tells how the advancing Germans failed to enlist the struggling Russian Liberation Movement in their assault on Stalin's forces...
...following month. ITT officials, motivated by both misplaced patriotism and fear for the future of the company's more than $150 million capital investment in Chile, determined that Allende had to be stopped before the vote in Congress. In that attempt, the company tried its best to enlist the support of other U.S. corporations in Chile as well as the CIA and the White House...
Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who has recently been pressing a diplomatic campaign to enlist sympathy for the Arab viewpoint, remained pointedly silent. So did King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, once a noted financial contributor to the Palestinians. He could hardly have been pleased that the attack took place in the Saudi embassy and that the Saudi ambassador was one of the five hostages. Even Yasser Arafat, the leader of Al-Fatah, the largest Palestinian nationalist group, made a point of trying (some what unconvincingly) to dissociate his organization from Black September...
...Woody Allen does say "no" to the Class of 1973, perhaps the Class Committee can start from scratch. It can run another referendum with a new slate of names, or (experience tells) it can go out on its own and enlist a speaker who will address the important issues of the day as the Senior Class heads for the world outside...
...civil suit, led 41 other defendants in "looting" $224 million from four IOS funds. The case is intriguing in view of Vesco's connections. As an administrative assistant in his business, Vesco employed Donald Nixon, 26, a nephew of the President. Vesco's lawyers were able to enlist the help of one of the President's brothers, Edward Nixon, in arranging the campaign contribution and the aid of former Attorney General John Mitchell in determining the status of Vesco's legal difficulties with both Swiss and U.S. authorities...