Word: kinsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back...
...Mobutu's own survival has been the army and, specifically, the 5,000-man paratroop guard made up mostly of kinsmen from his own small Bangala tribe. Even today, Mobutu spends his nights at a luxurious villa in the paratroopers' camp outside Kinshasa. From the beginning, Mobutu has ruled with an iron hand. He dissolved the Parliament, the 44 political parties and seven trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced...
...informal alliance between Saigon and Phnom-Penh has not tempered the bitter hostilities that have divided Cambodians and Vietnamese for centuries. Stung by the recent atrocities inflicted on the 500,000 ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia, the Saigon government has launched an effort to evacuate some of its vulnerable kinsmen. TIME Correspondent James Willwerth was aboard the Vung Tau, the lead LST in a fleet of 20 ships and small craft that last week carried 10,000 "refugees from their detention camps in Phnom-Penh 80 miles down the Mekong River to safety. His report...
...irony of American history, as we approach the two hundredth anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, that we should find ourselves as a nation half George III, half Edmund Burke, on the issue of a distant colonial people, who are not even our colonists or distant kinsmen...