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...interest in party politics. "No matter how fresh one can feel at 90," said der Alte, "one must take into account that today or tomorrow, everything can suddenly stop. Everything has an end." Or almost. Der Alte will still occupy his seat in the Bundestag and doubtless continue to snipe at Erhard and his policies whenever the chance arises. A good opportunity was not far off: last week Charles de Gaulle invited Adenauer over for a visit in late January-just before the French leader is due to get together with Erhard for another of those regular...
...typical militia outpost is Tanlong, some 20 miles southeast of Saigon. At night the capital's lights loom on the horizon, but none of the 14 men on duty can afford to look at them: the Viet Cong snipe constantly. The Tanlong outpost consists of six foxholes, all half-full of slimy water. A mortar pit, with its precious weapon covered carefully in canvas, stands near by, flanked by four ancient Vietnamese graves whose massive headstones provide the outpost's only cover...
Mike Hoare thought the Simbas might make their stand at Aru, which had been a main gateway for arms from Uganda. Instead, suicide squads stayed behind in Aru to snipe at the advancing mercenaries, and the bulk of the rebels pulled back in orderly fashion, carrying their arms with them. Hoare had sent a force to work around behind the town and cut off the retreating rebels, but it lost its way in the darkness...
...telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year after year. If you don't want to go, why don't you just shut up?" Retorted Gross: "I'm going to continue to snipe at all junketing organizations. So just keep your feet braced...
Like Denmark itself, Tidende does not so much meet adversity as make sly jokes about it. After Hitler's Nazis occupied Denmark, the country's press went on printing in captivity, but Tidende wasted few chances to snipe at the Germans in print. "Now the monkeys also have to work," read the caption beneath a picture in B.T., imported from Hamburg, that showed some presumably Aryan monkeys disporting in a cornfield. A Wehrmacht officer who demanded a story in Tidende on his regimental band was politely informed that he would have to pay 10 kroner for the "advertisement...