Word: haile
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...moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...
According to police, four Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) men knocked on the door, announced who they were and set to work at once with the battering ram. The door burst open on the third swing. In the police version, the SWAT team stumbled into a hail of automatic-weapons fire; the Panthers insist that the police opened fire first. It was nearly an hour before newsmen arrived, and when they did, police kept them more than two blocks away. "The fury of the gun battle was right out of Viet Nam," reports TIME Correspondent Martin Sullivan. "Hundreds of rounds...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 14-This city is tense as participants and marshals, police and federal troops prepare for Saturday's huge march protesting the War. Rain and hail this afternoon and bitter cold tonight have not prevented traffic from slowing almost to a halt as thousands pull into the District by buses, cars, trains, and thumbs...
...says the Hollywood smart money, kids are buying antiwar, we'll give them antiwar. And so there are movies like Hail, Hero...
...appearance, Douglas is a green version of his father, Kirk. Whether he can act will remain a mystery until he appears in a movie. Hail, Hero is only a moratorium on sense and taste...