Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semi-autonomous status in a Congo confederation. But he had one strong card. Hammarskjold's mandate from the U.N. members who had sent troops to the Congo did not permit him to commit the U.N. "army" to battle-or even to a jungle skirmish. For hours after hearing Bunche's report, Dag pondered the strength of Tshombe's hand. At last, barely six hours before the first contingent was due to take off, Hammarskjold canceled orders for U.N. troops to enter Katanga. Cabling ahead to call a special meeting of the Security Council, Hammarskjold boarded a plane...
This bloody skirmish serves Germany's Manfred Gregor as the core of his first novel. Like his seven heroes, Author Gregor was called up from high school during the spring of 1945 in the desperate mass conscription of 16-year-olds designed to flesh out the shattered Nazi armies. As U.S. armored columns knifed their way into Germany, they frequently encountered such youngsters, callously thrown into the front lines. Most often the dazed and frightened teen-agers surrendered in tears without firing a shot. But occasionally, they put up astonishing resistance. How they behaved usually depended on the quality...
...clearly just the end of a skirmish; few doubted that the real battle lay ahead-perhaps not too far ahead. Arraigned in court at Johannesburg under the tough emergency regulations, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, head of the militant Pan-African Congress, was defiant. "We are going underground," he warned even as the legislators in Cape Town took the final vote to ban both his group and the bigger, older African National Congress. The nervous police soon got proof that this was not an idle boast. Scores of A.N.C. leaders had escaped arrest in the confusion of the first raids...
...fought not between Democrats and Republicans, but between Democrats and Democrats. A bitter intraparty fight seems certain to break out when the liberal Democrats, notably Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey (see Democrats), push for a civil rights bill. And the session will doubtless see many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed to Fellow Texan Lyndon...