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...actively to bring in more comrades, help remove land mines and defuse local confrontations. They even happily discussed the improbable prospect of future football matches between guerrillas and British officers. Explained British Major Christopher Lehardy, commander of Alpha Camp: "We're trying to be sympathetic and yet remain neutral. The guerrillas are still very unsure of things. They are not trained to live like soldiers in barracks, and having to rely on other people for even their food and water is a new experience. Ultimately somebody has to take his partner's hand...
...color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner world that Freud, in the 1890s, was beginning to approach through clinical means. Even styles that now seem symbolically neutral could be charged with unexpected meanings...
...first thing to do is to try to get these people to discuss a clear agenda for what is going to happen now and to do it in a neutral area," Lannon said later. He called for a meeting this morning at 9 a.m. in East Cambridge's Kennedy School which he termed a "secure area for those parents and students...
...surface, Choi continued to receive the support of the officialdom, including the military, and high marks from most observers. His Cabinet, sworn in before his own inauguration, seemed to be both neutral and competent. Selected as Prime Minister was Shin Hyon Hwack, a technocrat and former economic planning chief. The new Defense Minister was General Choo Young Bok, known as "Tiger Choo" to American officers in Seoul, and, curiously, the first South Korean Defense Minister with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet...
...East bloc spy. Then Swiss officials discovered that Schilling had indeed been dispatched on an information-gathering mission, albeit unauthorized, by one Colonel Albert Bachmann, a defense department intelligence officer. Reflecting the surprise shared by Austrians at the revelation that a freelance spook from their equally neutral neighbor had been snooping on them, the Vienna daily Die Presse dubbed Schilling "the spy who came in from the Emmentaler," the best-known Swiss cheese...