Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Servan-Schreiber quotes the report (the authenticity of which he guarantees) of a Major Marcus who, after nine months serving in most regions of Algeria, sums up: "In spite of the optimism of official statements, the situation is not improving. Unable to distinguish between rebels and peaceful citizens [we] are forced to engage in blind repression. Each false fellagha killed is replaced by ten real ones-to the point where our forces, faced with the enmity of the entire population, will either have to practice a policy of extermination ... or give up." Adds Marcus: "Here, lying has become second nature...
...size of Massachusetts but with a meager population of tribesmen, camels and sheep. He ruled his desert strip so successfully and was liked by its people so well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when last seen alive, on exhibition in an animal's cage, chained hand and foot, dressed...
...Nine years ago Greece was fighting for its life against a powerful army of Communist guerrillas led by wiry, mustachioed General Markos Vafiades, a onetime tobacco worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos...
...liter D-Jaguar clung close to the leading Maserati. Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to nurse its brakes. The race was only nine hours old, but already only an accident could lose for Fangio. His excitable pit crew managed to get one of his teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept rolling in fine style. When the fireworks were touched...
...Glee Club will tour the country for nine days, March 30 to April 7, performing mostly in Midwestern cities. A concert in Chicago for the 100th Anniversary of the Harvard Club of Chicago is featured on the schedule...