Word: militiaman
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...notorious leaders of the Shah's regime. Three nights before he was executed, General Nematollah Nassiri, looking like a frightened rabbit, was interrogated by two local reporters. When he failed to respond fast enough to a question about who had ordered SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked as if his throat had been beaten. The station was flooded with calls protesting the appearance of an obviously injured man. "We overthrew the Shah because of his violation of democracy...
...fire, their leader shouted, 'Let's keep going! It's better to be shot standing up than getting it in the back on the ground!' That kind of pluck would, of course, be put to better use in a peaceful Lebanon. But as a Christian militiaman grimly forecast last week, 'We are prepared to fight for the next 40 years...
...everywhere. Sometimes Ethiopian warplanes would appear overhead, but we would hide and they wouldn't see us. Once I wondered aloud if there was danger ahead. "Only from snakes," replied Seyoum Geresus, my Eritrean guide, "but it is not their way to attack first." Then we saw a militiaman in a long white gown, with...
...corpse of a man, already charred and shriveled, was lying face down on the pavement, flames still licking at his back. A few feet away, a flock of tiny songbirds chirped in small wooden cages. "We will save the birds," said a young militiaman from the Mourabitoun [garrison] of the leftist Independent Nasserite Movement. Like the corpse, much of the town was burning; flames crackled inside the solidly built houses of what was once a well-to-do community of 28,000, mostly Christians. Smoke wafted over the debris-cluttered streets and rose in a solid sheet that was visible...
...brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this...