Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army, which until recently might have been described as a force de nap. In response to these anonymous calls to arms, there has been a widespread effort to organize trade unions or soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference...
...more exact science." That kind of reverence for the printed notes does not keep Caldwell from having a little fun now and then. In the party scene from her 1972 Traviata, the champagne corks were popped in time to the music. Her 1973 Daughter of the Regiment found Sills onstage slicing potatoes on the beat as she made chicken Marengo. That left the howling audience unprepared for the delivery of the next ingredient-the brandy-by a St. Bernard...
...performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in March 1974 and became the first woman on the podium of the New York City Opera. Then she warmed up her baton on a dramatically authoritative La Traviata and a breezy production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. Somogi joined City Opera as a coach and rehearsal pianist in 1966. Do orchestras react differently when the maestro is a woman? "When I wore my low-cut dress, there was some notice," admits Somogi. "Well, Zubin Mehta is a very good-looking man, and you can bet the women...
...former comrades-in-arms of Portugal's military revolution are beginning to look more and more like opposing forces. Last week all military units in northern Portugal were placed on strict alert and confined to barracks following the mutiny of an artillery regiment near the city of Oporto. The 650 mutineers at the Serra do Pilar Regiment ran a red banner up the flagpole and demanded the dismissal of the region's new anti-Communist military commander, General António Pires Veloso. They also demanded an end to what they called "purges" of leftists from the barracks...
...mutiny at Oporto provoked a flurry of other military and civilian protests. The demand for "internal democracy" within the armed forces-meaning the right of the troops to debate every military decision-was asserted by regiments throughout the country. At the headquarters of the 1st Light Artillery Regiment outside Lisbon, hundreds of left-wing soldiers, sailors and airmen gathered to protest what they called Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo's attempt to restore "a right-wing dictatorship under the cover of social democracy." The mutinous military men joined some 3,000 civilians chanting such slogans as "Fascists...