Word: skirmishings
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...that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past the Defense Ministry...
This murderous skirmish last October in the windswept wastes of Ladakh province may have done more than anything else to bring Asia to what Jawaharlal Nehru calls "one of those peak events in history when a plunge has to be taken in some direction." The gunfire in Ladakh echoed through India. Instead of shouts of "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!" (India and China are brothers). New Delhi's streets resounded with the clamor, "Give us arms! We will go to Ladakh!" The Red Chinese embassy was stoned, the All-India Students' Congress called for a "Throw Back the Aggressors...
...Montreal Wrestling Promoter Eddie Quinn, a part owner of El Morocco, reasoned that the Crosby combo had been booked all wrong to begin with. He offered them a good deal for a tag-team grappling match in a local arena next month, figuring that a two-against-two skirmish "might be fairer...
...advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter is not bad." The Reds also returned ten Indian policemen captured in last month's skirmish in Ladakh, as well as the bodies of nine others killed in the same fight...
Major Cooper picks his first hero (Michael Callan) in a skirmish, and at the battle of Ojos Azules, a remarkably clear and exciting action sequence, he finds four more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks...