Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over their cars, homes and savings. The only things they can take with them are a few personal belongings-and hope...
...dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help ward off any possible invasion by Turkey. Ever since then, Makarios has been appealing to Athens to curtail Grivas' powers, and to put the local Cypriot National Guard back under Cypriot control...
When all else failed, Makarios claimed a few weeks ago that Grivas was plotting to assassinate him. His "evidence" was a Grivas letter to a government official in Athens, warning that if Makarios stood firm on the National Guard issue, "I am ready to take action." Grivas scoffed at the accusation...
...Stephanopoulos government would cost the government the party's eight votes, which would knock Stephanopoulos right out of power. Through it all, Makarios refused to retreat. "Whether you like it or not," he told Stephanopoulos, "I plan to go ahead and pass legislation unilaterally to bring the National Guard under Cypriot government orders...
...obvious and immediate discomforts of the menopause, estrogens are "relatively harmless" if given for only a few months, or a year or two at most, and may be helpful for emotional distress. But the Letter editors are still not sure that estrogens help to preserve a youthful complexion or guard against heart attacks, dowager's hump or broken bones...