Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greeks began shooting, and they soon drew counterfire. A heavy shell, possibly a bazooka, hit the northeast corner of the building, killing one Greek Cypriot soldier and fatally wounding a second. The Turks continued to shell the hotel roof intermittently. None of the hundreds of journalists and guests crowding into the lower floors were injured by the Turkish firing. Later, when the Greeks removed their guns from the hotel and withdrew to the patio, they were loudly cheered by the much relieved newsmen and guests...
...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...
Perón will be best remembered for the successes?and excesses?of the nine years of his first two presidential terms, before a coup sent him into exile in 1955. A professional soldier and son of a moderately wealthy landowner, he rose to power as a champion of the exploited urban workers, the "shirtless ones" as he affectionately called them...
...summit, Nixon maintained the outward show of friendliness that Brezhnev established with his airport greeting. The President's first stop Friday was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, where he placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers. On the way back to the Kremlin talks, Nixon persuaded his Soviet security guards to allow him to get out of his car to greet the several hundred Muscovites standing behind the steel barricades near Red Square. The guards reluctantly let him out in front of the State Historical Museum, and he strode over to the barricades, touching...