Word: fortnights
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...whether they are in for a weekend or a fortnight or a month, whether they have years of experience or no experience at all, whether they are political rivals in the outer world or are best friends, in the backcountry they are pals. They hike together, share directions, and tell stories at the same campfire. The trail unites all who follow...
...first the party seemed willing to cooperate. King Juan Carlos had visited the Basque area early this month, and moderate Basques had been outraged at the murder of a nuclear engineer by members of E.T.A., the Basque separatist organization. Then a fortnight ago, a suspected E.T.A. terrorist named José Arregui died in police custody in Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances...
Anyone who spent much time at the television set, as millions did, during a fortnight of American rites-the Inaugural, the flight home of the hostages, the Super Bowl with its quasi minute of silent prayer-saw some memorable moments. But the proportion of the memorable to the banal, the overhyped, the stage waits, the garrulous monologues when nothing was happening, was about...
...latest incidents came only a month after slayings of five other Americans who had been working in El Salvador. In early December, suspected right-wing terrorists shot three nuns and a Catholic lay worker alongside a dirt road. 30 miles east of the capital. A fortnight later an American ex-policeman working as an investigator was gunned down...
...kidnaping of the judge, carried out once again by the Red Brigades, sadly recalled the Moro affair. The victim in this case was Magistrate Guido Giovanni D'Urso, responsible for overseeing the assignment of prisoners in Italy's penitentiaries. The terrorists struck a fortnight before Christmas and have issued "communiqués" with photographs of D'Urso, gaunt and unshaven, seated before a Red Brigades flag and looking much as Moro did during his captivity. The brigatisti have threatened to try him before a "people's court...