Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around dating bars in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Berkowitz was remembered as a quiet listener who would timidly attempt to join animated conversation, inject a few comments with his bemused smile, quickly be cut out of a group as an odd duck, retreat, then try futilely to strike up a conversation with others...
...Somalis said, the guerrillas had cut the rail line linking the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa with the Red Sea port of Djibouti and had killed or captured 23,000 Ethiopian troops. The Somalis also accused the Ethiopians of burning villages and massacring hundreds of civilians during their retreat. By the end of August, vowed the Somali guerrillas, the entire region would be "liberated" and merged with the Somali Republic...
...grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins a scholarship to the Military College of Science, receives a wartime-accelerated commission in the artillery, and behaves with bravery before and during the British retreat to Dunkirk...
...announcement (which guaranteed widespread publicity), Indira Gandhi last week set off on a pilgrimage to the ashram of Acharya Vinoba Bhave, 82, spiritual heir to Mahatma Gandhi. For three days, Mrs. Gandhi squatted on the floor, shared ascetic meals and soaked up the saintly Bhave's wisdom. The retreat was a brilliant political re-entry vehicle for the former Prime Minister...
...erratic Gaddafi and Sadat. After Gaddafi struck an arms deal with the Soviets in 1975, Sadat concluded that Gaddafi was trying to overthrow him by supporting an Egyptian underground with Libyan money and Russian arms. In early July, when an extremist Muslim sect called the Society for Repentance and Retreat murdered a former Egyptian Cabinet minister and planted bombs in Cairo, the Egyptian government blamed it on Gaddafi. At least four people have been executed in Egypt as Libyan "saboteurs." Sadat is incensed by Libyan propaganda that mocks him and his wife Jehan as "Antony and Cleopatra," living in presidential...