Word: napoleons
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Generally, political problems fail to engage Agee's imagination, except for the time a smuggled Monopoly set turns professorial Marxists into board-game landowners, buying play-money hotels with an almost erotic glee. But when a predictable argument about whether Napoleon was a reactionary or a progressive begins in a gray schoolroom, Agee slips a pulp detective novel behind his textbook. The adventures of fearless
...southeast Asia. But other, less official sources will ultimately explain what happened to us because of what we did. We may find out a little bit at a time or all at once. It may take a long time--Tolstoy wrote War and Peace about 40 years after Napoleon--or we may never know...
This appeal did not effectively counter intimidation by military and paramilitary members. President Jose Napoleon Duarte went so far as to state publicly that the foreign press "collaborates with the left." Many reporters, including the New York Times's Alan Riding, have received death threats and cannot return to El Salvador. A writer for Mexico's Uno Mas Uno, Ignacio Rodriguez Terrazas, was murdered several months ago. Says Richard Meislin, who formerly covered Nicaragua for the New York Times. "Although I'd be interested in visiting El Salvador, I'm not so crazy as to be a reporter there...
That month Allen met with the leader of the country's ruling military-civilian junta, Jose Napoleon Duarte, at Reagan transition headquarters in Washington. They discussed the possibility of increasing the U.S. aid to El Salvador that had been initiated in the waning days of the Carter Administration...
...pile into a van for the next leg of the trip to El Arish. The tarmac has long ago been chewed up by Israeli armor. It leads to a moonscape of sand dunes that over the centuries has been traversed by Pharaonic armies, Roman legions, Crusaders and even Napoleon's troops. For vast stretches the only signs of life are camels and goats foraging for shrubs...