Word: raid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raid the Stars. Most serious of all is the widespread feeling of drift, the conviction of Indians of all classes that there is no firm hand guiding the state...
...both by Shastri and Atulya Ghosh, boss of Eastern India. The government made one attempt to show itself vigilant, but Nanda could not take credit for the move, since it was ordered by the Finance Ministry. Besides, it was scarcely what the country had been waiting for: a spectacular raid on tax-dodging movie stars...
...actors obviously know it. Worst of all, though, is the picture's plot: something about a Spanish Loyalist guerrilla (Peck) who lives in the French Pyrenees and passes the time nursing his nerves instead of fighting Franco. In fact, he spends nine-tenths of this picture postponing a raid that doesn't amount to much when it finally comes off, and Zinnemann is unable to make drama of delay. Pale Horse is a white elephant...
...were still staring to the North. In the wake of the U.S. retaliatory blow against North Vietnamese bases, government officials and civilians alike waited with a kind of horrible fascination for some sign of things to come. Crews of workers carved up the city's parks, preparing air-raid shelters for 400,000 of Saigon's 1,500,000 residents, while government pencil pushers cranked up a plan to evacuate hundreds of thousands more in the event of an attack...
Visiting burned and wounded air-raid victims, Makarios wept as he was surrounded by sobbing relatives. He denounced Turkey's "cowardly, barbaric and brutal attack" and cried that Ankara would never succeed, because "Greeks die but do not surrender...