Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the pudgy man in saffron robes begging for a bowl of rice on the streets of Bangkok seemed like just another Buddhist monk. But the man who called himself Sukittikacharo Bhikku ("Honored Everywhere") was recognized last week as Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, 65, the former dictator, who was toppled from power after a 1973 student uprising...
Opposition to court-ordered busing had not abated. One-third of the white kids did not show up at two of the most troubled schools; a federal marshal and five policemen were injured in encounters with white malcontents. But violence was generally under control...
...being invaded by Kenyans," shrilled Radio Uganda. "Field Marshal Amin is in control of the situation" but "citizens of Uganda should be prepared to give blood...
What was self-styled Field Marshal Amin doing during the raid? As the C130s approached Entebbe, an old acquaintance of his, Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda, phoned him from Tel Aviv. By the time Amin and Bar-Lev hung up 20 minutes later, the Israelis' 50-minute raid was well under...
...Died. Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, 72, towering Soviet Minister of Defense and a member of the Politburo; of an apparent heart attack; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...