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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the lives of 13 militiamen and twelve Kurds, Marivan's 10,000 residents left for fear of government reprisals, and many set up camp in the nearby forest. When the army then dispatched a convoy including a dozen American-made M-47 tanks to reinforce the militiamen, men and women from the neighboring town of Kamyaran lay down on the main thoroughfare with their children to stop the vehicles. "If there's going to be bloodshed," one villager said, "it might as well be here as in Marivan...
...unusual to see a Kurdish woman dressed in an elaborately embroidered homespun costume going about her chores with a child on one hip and a Kalashnikov rifle on the other. "We've got the will to fight," says one woman, patting her weapon affectionately, "and the means." The men are walking arsenals, with guns and cartridge belts at their hips and hand grenades dangling in leather pouches at their sides. Tucked away in the hills and valleys is heavier equipment, including machine guns, antitank weapons and artillery...
Midge Decter, author, on why she thinks affirmative action for women has negative results: "The implication is that women are really not the equals of men and can't do it on their...
...American men's basketball team was an artistic success but a Scoreboard failure, finishing fifth. Hastily recruited from the second tier of amateur players-most of the best played instead in the Pan American Games-the youthful Americans were unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence...
Esquire's sturdy genes go back to Depression 1933, when the posh magazine was launched for sale in men's clothing stores instead of on newsstands and cost 50? while the Saturday Evening Post sold for a nickel. It promoted men's fashions, a merchandising emphasis that continues to this day. But a part of the editorial genius of its founding editor Arnold Gingrich was a taste for good writing. At a time when Ernest Hemingway's stories were too unconventional for the Post, Gingrich admiringly sent him free slacks and a windbreaker...