Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their jobs because of the monopoly on the higher Party positions held by "Old Guard" communists -- those who had been with the Party for 30 and 40 years. Mao also knew that once he died the ambitious Old Guard members under him would clash in a long and devisive fight for the succession...
...Vigorous Fight. Despite his twin resignations, Pike is still technically a member of the hierarchy as a "resigned" bishop, and he intends to fight the charges vigorously. Undeterred by Pike's withdrawal from active office, Louttit still intends to put his case before the House of Bishops. But other Episcopal leaders are worried about the disastrous effect of a heresy hearing on the church's image and the bitter internal conflicts it would create. They are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get Louttit to abandon his demand for a trial...
...Cambodian border in less than twelve hours, the 1st Air Cav proceeded to rout the enemy in a battle "larger than San Juan Hill and El Caney combined, bigger and more impressive than Pork Chop Hill, bloodier than Cantigny, and lasting as long as Belleau Wood."* Yet that fight, Marshall notes incredulously in the current New Leader, did not rate a single lead headline in any U.S. newspaper...
Moscow is an off-the-beaten-track locale for cold war suspense novels, possibly because few Western authors can fight through the Red tape to gather local color. Michael Frayn won entree by studying as an exchange student at Moscow University. As a result, his sprightly book shines with an eerily realistic glow...
...this serves to give Stephen Longstreet the chance to let his near-assimilated Jewish-Americans ponder the quality of their Judaism and their allegiance to it. They also get drawn into a fierce proxy fight for Mama's bank account, and one of the characters even drifts behind the Iron Curtain for a little daring-do. Longstreet, who has written several screenplays and a hit musical (High Button Shoes) as well as eight other novels, is an old hand at story spinning. The pattern here is familiar, but it is a nice piece of goods all the same...