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Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also...
The French left the city suddenly and totally. In a few days their homes were evacuated and in a few more days, they were reinhabited by Algerian squatters who later received official squatters rights. A period of near anarchy ensued when hundreds of refugees stormed the cities and begged for...
In northern Lebanon, the leftists overran isolated Christian villages, seizing town halls and looting police stations of arms and ammunition. East of the capital, an estimated 2,000 soldiers of the P.L.A. crossed from Syria into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Helping the local militia and other Palestinian units already...
Wilson says he does feel a responsibility to warn those who would politically misuse his theories as a justification of the status quo. But he cannot keep people, if they represent the ruling interests in a society, from seizing on his theories as a defense for the currently unequal distribution...
"It's just like a play on a stage," mourned one young Lao last week. "It's democratic in the Pathet Lao way, not our way. But it is useless to resist." In fact, despite the regime's direct impact on their lives, the 3 million Laotians...