Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They made their move in the middle of the night, almost apologizing for their coup. Shortly before 2 o'clock last Tuesday morning, a group of officers descended on the Prime Minister's residence in Rawalpindi. "Sir, the troops have come," a servant advised Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali...
Warrior Image. The assets are mainly held through numbered bank accounts and blind names to prevent Israeli retaliation-and also to camouflage the wealth of a movement that prides itself on its warrior image. Much of the investment has been handled by the Arab Bank Ltd., a vigorous Amman-based...
Even when hopes for detente have been high-and nowadays they are waning-tensions between East and West have remained all too tangible along the border between the two Germanies. For more than a generation, elite units of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, the world's two most powerful...
Hideous Fence. One of the patrol's main tasks was to note the progress the East Germans were making in renovating the hideous fence system they have built along the frontier to stop their citizens from escaping to the West. At one location, about 30 soldiers -guarded by other...
In Milan, however, the authorities were determined to go ahead with elaborate pretrial procedures. Two hundred members of the bar association volunteered as defense attorneys, and nearly 1,000 stalwart citizens stepped forward for jury duty. Some 1,500 carabinieri with attack dogs and armored cars surrounded the courthouse and...