Word: garrisoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ORLEANS. District Attorney Jim Garrison, famed for his conspiracy theory about the Kennedy assassination, will go to trial in May on charges of receiving bribes from pinball-machine companies. Former Louisiana Attorney General Jack Gremillion was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for perjury; he was convicted of lying about stock that he owned in a savings-and-loan corporation that was under investigation by a grand jury...
...Radcliffe juniors have been elected to the Iota Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Joan L. Aron of Winthrop House and Newton; Cynthia A. Bates of Currier House and Newport News, Va.; Phyllis A. James of Currier House and Washington, D.C.; Patricia L. Lansdale of Adams House and Garrison, Md.; Martha E. Morgan of Quincy House and Jefferson City, Mo.; Barbara R. Peskin of South House and West Northfield, Ill.; Dale S. Russakoff of Lowell House and Birmingham, Ala.; and, Andrea R. Weiss of Lowell House and Wyncote...
...with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining, we're collecting the fragments and painstakingly assembling them into whole insects." New Yorker Writer Garrison Keillor parodies speed-reading courses and concludes: "You are now able to read at the amazing rate of 8,000 words per minute, which means that you should have finished reading this already." Which would be a blessed gift for those who have to read a lot of Associated Press...
Fifty miles to the west, a third column, its men dressed in civilian clothes, crossed the border in chartered buses. After a stiff fight at the border town of Kikagati, they headed on to Mbarara, where they stormed the garrison of Uganda's 1,000-man Simba Battalion and, aided by some dissidents who switched allegiances, succeeded in driving the loyalist troops out-but only for the moment...
...Ugandans, who had taken their weapons with them, quickly regrouped. Outnumbering the rebels by 5 to 1, they blasted them out of the garrison in less than an hour, reportedly killing most of the insurgents. The invaders in Masaka did not fare much better. By late afternoon, Amin's armor and air force (which also bombed the Tanzanian city of Bukoba on Lake Victoria, killing ten persons) had forced the militia to retreat to a position a few miles from the border. Thus, within less than 24 hours last week, the exiles' best hopes of ousting Amin...