Word: sash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witness was Kenneth Jordaan, one of the dean's altar servers and confidants. Jordaan said that ffrench-Beytagh had egged him into joining the security police to keep tabs on government tactics. The prosecution maintained that the dean had incited Jordaan to violence and had told the Black Sash, a liberal women's group, that bloody revolution is justified under certain circumstances. Taking the stand in his own defense, ffrench-Beytagh said that, far from advocating violence, he had warned that the present racial system would result in violence if it were not changed. Apartheid, he insisted...
Parade created a scandal and launched Picasso as a public personality. Cocteau's milieu absorbed him, and he became a social lion, resplendent in dinner jacket and red sash, surrounded by titled groupies. During this "bourgeois" phase of Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso...
Whether the applicant is a Frenchman eager to marry before departing for Africa the next day, or a man and woman anxious to legitimize their newborn child, Bouvet obliges by donning his tricolor sash and officiating at a town-hall ceremony. "Mind you, I don't marry just anyone," says Bouvet. "First, I have a chat with the couple. If I feel something's wrong, then I refuse to marry them. But red tape shouldn't be allowed to thwart love and marriage...
Since 1966, there have been periodic reports-few of them confirmed-of G.I. defectors in Viet Nam. In 1968 an American reconnaissance patrol happened on a Viet Cong squad that was led by a sandy-haired American who wore a red sash and carried a Communist AK-47 assault rifle; killed in the subsequent shootout, the American was identified as a Marine deserter. The latest sighting of a suspected defector occurred just three weeks ago near Kontum: villagers reported a visit by a Viet Cong patrol that included one very tall man who appeared to be a black...
...only person any one can remember who has engaged in a battle of wills with Papa Doc and survived. And local bocors (voodoo witch doctors) claim that she, alone among Duvalier's brood, is his "spiritual daughter." Jean-Claude seems certain to wind up wearing the presidential sash, but it seems equally likely that Dédé and Max will run things once the ailing Papa Doc, 63, takes his leave...