Word: skirmisher
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...been in Constantine, reporters filed stories that Algeria was "teetering on the brink of civil war." Down from Paris flew a whole new contingent of correspondents, searching in vain for the war. Almost triumphantly, Ben Bella annouced that actually fewer than five people had been killed in the Constantine "skirmish." To show his good faith, Ben Bella ordered the release of the Cabinet minister his forces had captured...
Once in the crown colony, they dodged through fields and thickets, trying to avoid being spotted by R.A.F. helicopters cruising low over Robins Nest Mountain and the scrub pines of Flower Hill. Most were routed from their hiding places by skirmish lines of British troops, and sent to Fanling camp. There, after a nourishing meal, the luckless refugees were herded onto trains or trucks for the short ride back to Red China. Along the way, fellow Chinese tossed food packages into the refugees' outstretched hands. Most of them saved some of the food against the day when they would...
...Deke") Slayton blasted off last week with the roar of a soaring Atlas. ''We have only begun to fight," he wrote to the chamber of commerce of his home town, Sparta, Wis. ''We have lost a skirmish, but the battle is not yet over...
Star Billing. Besides coping with the opposition to his bill, President Kennedy had to deal with a trade-bill crisis within his own Administration team. Before the Ways and Means hearings started, a skirmish broke out over who was going to get star billing as the lead-off Administration witness. Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, the principal framer of the bill, wanted to be the chief witness. But the Ways and Means Committee's Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, a staunch friend of the bill, wanted the Administration to lead off with Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills...
Even in the middle of economic crisis, however, Crimeds managed to disagree among themselves so violently that eleven top-notch editors resigned to launch a new daily, the Harvard Journal. Another battle, reminiscent of the almost forgotten News skirmish...