Word: soth
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...also handle some of the Cushitic or Semitic languages of the Horn; a specialist in Swahili who can handle some other important eastern-central languages of Africa (e.g. Kikuyu); a specialist in Hausa who can handle some of the important languages of western Africa; and a specialist in Zulu, Soth-Tswana, or Shona who can handle some of the important languages of southern Africa...
While testifying before the Ervin committee last summer, Jeb Stuart Magruder mentioned that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had paid $20,000 to Author-Columnist Victor Lasky in 1972. Amid the Watergate quakes, this disclosure hardly caused a tremor, but it did rattle Lauren Soth, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He alerted the National Conference of Editorial Writers that the 100 papers subscribing to Lasky's weekly column (syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance) had been uninformed about Lasky's financial connection with C.R.P...
...odds seemed heavily weighted in the direction of a North Vietnamese fiefdom. Government leaders, says Simms, seemed "completely despairing" about the possibility of being left with North Vietnamese forces still entrenched on Laotian soil. The Communists, by contrast, eagerly welcomed a ceasefire. The Pathet Lao spokesman in Vientiane, Soth Pethrasy, said confidently, "We are the party of victory...
...antiaircraft fire. In Indochina, where the U.S. was never challenged in the sky, artillery is the chief problem. All told, 4,219 machines have been lost during the war, at least 1,928 of them in combat. Last week the Communist Pathet Lao's representative in Vientiane, Colonel Soth Pethrassy, said that the mountainous terrain in the Laos operation made it especially easy to shoot at U.S. helicopters. "We place three men on each hill, and when the helicopters come in low we can shoot at them in an almost horizontal line," he said. Soth might have been exaggerating...