Word: royale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seldom reported war in Laos ebbs and flows with the seasons. In dry weather, the Communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies go on the offensive. During the monsoon rains, the more mobile Royal Laotian Army is trucked or helicoptered into battle and usually regains what has been previously lost...
...special church) which further fanned the rhetorical fires. Nor did it do anything to ban or de-emphasize the Ulster laws providing for the imprisonment without charge of probable traitors, or to de-emphasize the Ulster Auxiliary Police. These auxiliary policemen, known as "B-Specials," are, like the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary, armed. Furthermore, the B-Specials exclude Catholics and their official purpose is to help the regular police beat back those who would subvert the state...
...October 5, 1968, a march was being held in Derry and a terrible confrontation took place between the marchers and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Escalation was the order of the day. More marches took place, each one accompanied by the same sickening confrontation, and the same sickening government denunciation of the marchers as front men for the Republican movement. Even Nationalist politicians denounced some of the marchers as socialists and communists...
...Then at dusk, a remarkable thing happened. The Royal Ulster Constabulary charged the Bogside. They actually invaded the neighborhood, followed by a small number of Orange marchers who continued throwing the stones. This remarkable event fused the entire neighborhood. In an era of hopeful, if not actually good, faith, this was quite a shock. Barricades went up and the police were repulsed...
...system that, to some extent, endures today. Abroad, his military and diplomatic machinations helped ensure the continued existence of a weakened, fragmented Europe, soon to be dominated by France. The Cardinal also devised, as Historian O'Connell relates in this clear and remarkably sympathetic study, a code of royal morality to stiffen Louis XIII's spine and soothe his own (in O'Connell's view) active conscience. To protect his subjects, Richelieu lectured Louis, a sovereign must first protect the state. When the state is threatened, the first consideration is not to ensure justice...