Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal goals. I believe that if I can prove myself useful, then gradually people may wish me to become more closely involved with specific organizations or movements. _ have not set myself a general goal in life, nor am I sufficiently ambitious or overconfident to have decided what mark I would like to make on history. I would only hope that it won't be a messy mark...
...this respect, the Queen, Philip and Charles are the complete antithesis of the Duke of Windsor. I recall how, when Windsor arrived in the Bahamas as Governor-General in 1940, he savaged the feelings of one of the island's most distinguished colored citizens. Sir Etienne Dupuch, owner and editor of the Tribune [the most influential newspaper in the Bahamas]. had called at Government House to tender his respects. Windsor, who was standing just outside the main gate, dismissed Dupuch with the withering comment: "Colored people to the tradesmen's entrance...
...consequence of an incident that shook all of Israel in late March, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last week abruptly removed Brigadier General David Hagoel, 49, as chief of the 2,200-man Israeli occupation force on the Jordan River's West Bank. At the same time the commander and deputy commander of the Bethlehem military district, a lieutenant colonel and a major, were ordered to be court-martialed for "an infringement of existing orders...
...last two wars. Shmuel Katz, 63, was a comrade of Menachem Begin in the underground Irgun movement; a Herut Party member of the Knesset and an Israeli superhawk, he resigned as the Premier's foreign information adviser to protest Begin's moves toward peace. Former Major General Aharon Yariv, 57, was chief of military intelligence from 1964 to 1972; a middle-of-the-roader, he heads the Institute for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Their responses...
...Associated General Contractors of America estimates that thefts total more than $500 million annually. The recovery rate is only 5% to 10%, v. 70% for stolen cars. Equipment thieves are specialists, probably organized gangs working with a few crooked employees. Almost invariably, they arrange to fence the machinery before they steal it. Says FBI Special Agent James Cadigan: "They do their window-shopping before they go into the store...