Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurds have deserved their reputation as troublemakers. Living in the grandly forbidding mountain country that straddles the borders of Iraq. Turkey, Syria, Iran and Russia, they have always been in a state of rebellion against outside discipline. After World War II, Russia happily used the disgruntled Kurds to harass the other "host" countries. Last week the Kurds were at it again, waging war against the Iraqi government and the country's predominantly Arab population...
...jungle surrounding the Pathet Lao stronghold on the Plaine des Jarres, Meo guerrillas also successfully harass the enemy. Even the regular army occasionally shows up well: last month 100 outnumbered government troops fought their way to a village under attack by the Pathet Lao, turned defeat into a victory...
...police politely invite the menace to leave town; he politely refuses. They harass him with sudden searches and unreasonable arrests; he gets a lawyer and they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails...
...Winthrop House talk last night, said that police enforcing Rhodesia internal passport system harass Africans. He declared that to separate his nation from Rhodesia when independence , citing his belief that white South Rhodesians intend to follow an -like racial policy...
...Nuisance. On and off for several weeks, the Russians have been sending up fighters to harass Western planes. Last week the Reds announced dozens of air corridor flight plans that would put Soviet transport planes at precisely the same altitudes at precisely the same times previously allocated to Western aircraft. This maneuver turned out to be sheer bluff; the Russian flights usually were canceled at the last minute, or the pilots simply chose a distant, safer course. But Moscow now tried another nuisance technique...