Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen may be most important: a call for a general strike was unsuccessful and new industrial protests did not take place." But the problem of keeping people on their jobs is far from resolved. As a Western diplomat observed last week, "What do you do, post a soldier with a bayonet over every worker...
Rhodesia's ability to continue holding the Front forces at arm's length though apparently eroding as the weeks go by and the guerrillas become more and more daring, is still considerable. Consistently, ten guerrillas have fallen for each Rhodesian soldier who died in the fighting of the last few years. And Smith is counting on his 7900-man army and 35,000 reserves to improve that standard in future battles. The loyalty of black Rhodesian troops--who make up over half the active soldiers--has already been tested and not found wanting...
...There is a military court case against him and even if this was not so, as a soldier, he must still get permission to leave the country," Sousa said...
...Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner, a longtime confidante of Nobel's known popularly as "Peace Bertha," who founded the Austrian Peace Society in 1891. Possibly the award's most hapless recipient was Carl von Ossietzky, a German soldier turned peace activist who attacked the rising might of the Nazis and his country's secret rearmament. When Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935, he was in a Nazi concentration camp; Adolf Hitler was so enraged by the decision that he forbade Germans henceforth to accept the Peace...
...Girls in Their Summer Dresses a womanizer's roving eye finally set ties on the most beautiful legs in the room: his wife's-a comment on male sexuality that says more than any behaviorist manual. Act of Faith, in which a Jewish soldier trades in a pistol to treat his Christian buddies to drinks, is an explanation of the Masada complex that remains undated. Mixed Doubles, the story of a couple whose on-court skirmishes reveal a betrayed trust, seems doubly acute in a time of Inner Tennis...