Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminine declaration, all in impeccable Latin, that today's woman does not necessarily want to be man's superior, but simply his peer: "Together, let us establish a new society, the foundations of which will be ... not fear, but good will; not war between the sexes, but loyal brotherhood and sisterly love." Whether or not Harvard's graduating males got the message, they gave Classicist Mishkin an enthusiastic hand...
Last week the King's luck held, but barely. Friction between cocky Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and army troops loyal to Hussein erupted into three days of bloody warfare. The King's government-and the King as well -nearly became casualties of the battle. Hundreds died, including a U.S. embassy official machine-gunned in front of his own family. In the wake of a frenzy of fedayeen looting and beatings, Westerners were hurriedly airlifted out of Amman; among them were at least 300 Americans. In Beirut, Lebanese officials nervously wondered whether the outburst would have an echo...
Just who started the battle between the swaggering guerrillas and Jordanian soldiers loyal to Hussein is unclear. The guerrillas were members of the ultra-militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is led by a radical Arab Christian physician named George Habash, an exponent of terror tactics against civilians, including children. In the small town of Zarka, twelve miles north of Amman, quarrels broke out between guerrillas and soldiers of the Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Regiment, a unit especially faithful to Hussein. Both sides were armed, and the confrontation quickly expanded into episodes of violence. By the time it ended...
...seen. As he stood near the President, weary and crumpled, Finch hardly looked like someone who had just advanced professionally. Instead, he was a man who had been rescued and given safe haven-by the vessel that had rammed him in the first place. But he was still gamely loyal. "It's a higher calling," he quipped, "but a lower salary...
...page 27) reverted almost to a sideshow. Cambodia itself had become the main arena. Two months ago, when Premier Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Sirik Matak overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk, one of their major objectives was to rid the country of Communist Vietnamese troops. Now the Vietnamese loyal to Hanoi are outnumbered in Cambodia by Vietnamese loyal to Saigon, and the country of 7,000,000 has become a battleground for the warring outsiders...