Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory, the 100,000 soldiers of the Angolan army, backed by as many as 40,000 Cuban troops and more than 1,500 Soviet and East German advisers, should have gained the upper hand long ago. Luanda has received $2 billion in military hardware from Moscow in recent years; airports are crowded with Soviet assault helicopters and fighter aircraft, and ports provide havens for Soviet warships. Despite this mighty arsenal, some Angolan troops are in rags and many are demoralized. Observes a church worker who has lived in the country three years: "When things get tough, they peel off their...
Well, if you are Julius in Doris Dorrie's new German comedy Men, you naturally move in with your wife's lover...
...crackdown were soon evident. The feared units of army men, their faces daubed with black greasepaint, fanned out through Santiago's vast slums searching for Pinochet opponents. By week's end more than 40 people had been arrested. Among them: Ricardo Lagos, a moderate Socialist Party leader; German Correa, secretary-general of the Popular Democratic Front, an outlawed Marxist coalition; and Rafael Marroto, a spokesman for the Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Five Catholic priests, two Americans and three French, who worked with the poor were also detained. A few days later, the French clerics were put on a plane...
...stay in 1975, becoming a citizen six years later. She resents the all-Czech talk. "Come on, I'm an American," she huffs, entirely correctly. "You can't go on where we were born. If you do that, McEnroe (who was born in Wiesbaden) is German...
...question of manpower allocations was not academic: "It is essential to emphasize that Eisenhower's Allied army, though backed by tremendous air superiority, was vastly outnumbered by the German army as a whole." In order to establish a firm western battle line in Europe, the Allies needed a coordinated assault by the Red Army in the east. "Without a resurgent Russian front an Allied invasion of Europe would have been impossible...