Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They shall not pass," declared Prefect René Jannin of the department of Isère, invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
BORN. To Field Marshal Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, 49, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, 26, the senior of his current wives: twin boys, her third and fourth children, his 33rd and 34th; in Kampala, Uganda...
...mistake to assume that the Geneva conference is going to be easy or brief. But it will be the first opportunity, if it materializes, for the Arab leaders and the Israeli leaders to meet together hi extensive negotiations to understand one another's approach, positions, attitudes, and to marshal the opinion of the world on the points in dispute...
...wounds. I think there is a general acceptance of the proposition that we ought to have a comprehensive settlement, based on peace treaties with all the Arab nations and the Israelis being involved together. I can't anticipate now what our position would be. I would try to marshal the support of the leader, first of all. Secondly, the opinion of his people back home, the constituencies that might exist in our own country that would have influence around the world, opinion that exists in the European Community, and in the Arab nations as well...
Shortly after Bhutto was deposed, the soldiers went to the home of the opposition leader, retired Air Marshal Asghar Khan. After saluting, they arrested him and drove him to a government rest house. The head of Bhutto's federal security force, several of his intelligence chiefs and most members of his Cabinet were also rounded up and placed in "temporary protective custody." So were other leaders of the nine parties that comprise the opposition Pakistan National Alliance...