Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France Flight 747 from Frankfurt had just begun its descent toward Paris in the late-afternoon sun last Tuesday when three men, brandishing knives and Molotov cocktails, burst into the cockpit and demanded to be taken to Iran. Thus began for their 61 hostages a harrowing 46-hour journey of nearly 3,000 miles, with stops in Geneva, Beirut, Cyprus and, finally, Tehran. There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison...
REINSTATED. Vyacheslav Molotov, 94, onetime Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin who negotiated the infamous Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939; to membership in the Communist Party, from which he was dropped in 1962; in Moscow. Molotov was dismissed from the party five years after losing his post-Stalin leadership positions, allegedly for belonging to a group seeking the overthrow of Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
...what was then called Palestine, carrying the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland. How he and other fervid believers founded the Negba kibbutz in 1939, digging wells and building huts on an arid patch 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. How he and his comrades, armed only with Molotov cocktails and a handful of shells, held off a dozen Egyptian tanks in 1948, that exhilarating year in which the state of Israel was created...
...more acrimonious and futile ("You can't call Germany aggressive and militaristic," he was told; "please remember that it was Poland which attacked us first"). By autumn of 1940, he was giving his best material to his diary-his sighting, for instance, of Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov on his way to meet a German delegation headed by Goring and Ribbentrop. Molotov looked "expressionless" and "dour . .. like a provincial schoolmaster." But the diary, quoted extensively in this journal, also records Shirer's edginess and fatigue...
Armed with homemade Molotov cocktails, guns, wooden sticks, nails and even arrows, slumdwellers near Santiago prepared for clashes with police. Some Chileans turned their homes into hospitals, bracing for severe government reprisals. Doctors and nurses stood ready to attend the injured...