Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne...
...conservatism and family-centeredness of the Chinese. The copying of the perfect model, whether aesthetic or moral, was considered a higher achievement than expressing originality. The Communists have perpetuated this tradition by extolling new kinds of political models, individuals or institutions that embody all the Maoist virtues, like the soldier Lei Feng or the Tachai production brigade. Because of China's collectivism familial past, the worst punishment an individual can receive is to be isolated from the commu nity and ridiculed by his neighbors. Solomon illustrates this with a 19th Century photograph of two people suffering the cangue...
...that the gases caused by the decomposing body gave the drum buoyancy and floated it to the surface. Three fishermen found it in Dumfoundling Bay near North Miami Beach. Police checked out the fingerprints of the victim with the FBI and made the identification: John Roselli, 71, a Mafia soldier of fortune who had been involved in some amazing capers-and made the mistake of telling about them...
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (translated as Journey to the End of Night) is as un-Proustian as a novel can be. Its scenes are the battlefields of World War I, hospital wards, lunatic asylums. The mysterious author's protagonist-narrator is a most reluctant soldier and postwar wanderer named Bardamu. Murderers, wife beaters and abortionists appear as ordinary characters in Journey. Its language-French jangled into street argot-is a kind of frenzied shorthand of pain, terror and hate...
...soldier's exasperated candor suggests, after more than a year of inconclusive fighting, the patterns of violence in Lebanon have been shaken up by some extraordinary reversals in roles. The Moslem Syrians, who originally entered the Lebanese quagmire in a peacemaking effort, are now deeply committed-on the side of the Lebanese Christians. The Christians, who seemed to be losing the struggle against their Moslem compatriots only a few months ago, are now apparently winning. The Israelis, once just worried spectators, have been quietly shipping arms to the Christians, thus becoming, in effect, allies of the Syrians...