Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fiji Islanders and the Irish are still on the way, but already on the ground in southern Lebanon are some 4,500 blue-helmeted soldiers from France, Norway, Canada, Senegal, Nigeria, Iran and Nepal. These polyglot forces make up the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Its mandate: to form a buffer zone between the Israeli army and the guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week TIME Cairo Correspondent Dean Brelis and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff separately visited the region for a glimpse of what U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has called "the most difficult peace-keeping...
...Europe, the response was more restrained, even though Airbus Industrie had pushed so hard for the sale to Eastern that it lent the airline four A300s to test on some of its U.S. runs. Sniffed Jochen Eichen of Deutsche Airbus G.M.B.H., the German wedge of the Airbus Industrie polyglot: "The sale to Eastern does not mean life or death for the Airbus. All it means is that the operation may become profitable more quickly...
...Union has assembled anywhere outside the Communist world: $900 million worth of tanks, field guns, rockets, radar, artillery, mortars and missiles. To help with the hardware, and otherwise shore up the sagging Marxist military regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Moscow has also provided Addis Ababa with a polyglot army of soldiers and technicians. According to Western intelligence reports, the roll includes 1,000 Russians, 3,000 Cubans (of whom 2,000 are believed to have been involved in last week's fighting), 1,000 or so troops from the radical Arab state of South Yemen and perhaps...
...only American-born member of the polyglot squad is Steve Kowal, who was originally an ice hockey goalie. Other team members come from England, Malaysia India, and France. The fledgling field hockey team's only other game this fall was an exhibition against the Islanders, a team of West Indian players based in New York...
There is serious question, though, as to how long the euphoria will last. Surinam, which formally becomes independent at midnight this Tuesday, is a polyglot* New England-size former Dutch colony on South America's humid equatorial coast, with some exotic and bitter divisions. The new nation's largest single racial group−129,500 East Indians known locally as Hindustanis−almost universally opposed independence. They feared political and economic repression by the 108,500 Creoles (blacks and mulattoes), most of whom belong to leftist-influenced parties supporting Prime Minister Arron. Joining forces with Surinam...