Word: mau
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...possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists...
Amin had been the heavyweight boxing champion of the Ugandan army for ten years. More important, he fought with the British in Burma during World War II and in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion (which he described as "the finest physical training a footballer could have"), and for five years he was the chief of staff of Uganda's armed forces...
...P.L.O. AS A LIBERATION MOVEMENT. Any comparison between the P.L.O. and movements for national liberation is misleading. Take the Mau Mau of Kenya, the F.L.N. in Algeria, the Haganah in Palestine or the Congress Party in India: the common denominator of all of us was to get rid of a foreign ruler. None of us wanted to destroy a country, while the P.L.O. wants to destroy our state. To the extent they are gaining recognition it is a very ugly expression of appeasement. Those who recognize the legitimacy of the P.L.O. will hardly be able to complain against terrorism...
...mean and exact; his sense of ideas almost nonexistent. He had (and still has) one obsessive theme: the unease of the arrived white rich, the devices by which they assuage guilt, and the hustles wrought on them from below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment...
...most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh and Vo Van Mau...