Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly four months after it was launched-in response to the death of three children crushed by the runaway car of an IRA militant shot through the heart by a British soldier-the peace movement has grown into a potentially powerful political force. Braving death threats, verbal abuse, and occasional violence from extremists, tens of thousands of Ulster Protestants and Roman Catholics have joined weekly marches and rallies calling for an end to the bloodshed. More significant, the movement is sprouting organizational roots. Enjoying broad support from Ulster's churches and with a flourishing magazine, financial backing...
...four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private life as he often was on screen, Gabin told a recent interviewer that politicians...
...Syrians seem to have settled in for a long stay. In the fertile Bekaa Valley, Syrian currency circulates as easily as the Lebanese pound, and shopkeepers routinely do business in either. Arriving there from Damascus, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn stopped at a Lebanese checkpoint manned by a Syrian soldier. "Welcome to our country," he said...
...Radcliffe field hockey team will play a challenge match this afternoon against the Harvard International Men's squad. The match is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Soldier's Field and will feature stickmen from the United Kingdom, Holland, India, Malaysia, and the U.S. They will battle a Radcliffe team which recently completed its most successful season in years...
...gruff, introverted, monotoned, a career soldier who holds the nation's top political job. The other is suave, eloquent, literate, an instinctive politician in a key military post. Both men belong to the same generation of Israelis who grew up with the Jewish state's struggle for survival-and yet, even though they are members of the same Cabinet, they are locked in a constant, fratricidal battle. In fact, the rivalry between Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 54, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, has become so intense that practically every issue in Israel's hothouse politics polarizes into...