Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insisted that the Katangese at least make a stab at settling their differences with Adoula. The threatened alternative: a new military crackdown by the U.N.'s Swedish, Irish, Indian and Ethiopian troops, now holding Elisabethville and other towns in a firm grip. An even more humiliating prospect for Tshombe lay in the U.N.'s announcement that a thousand troops from Adoula's central Congolese army soon could don blue helmets and join the U.N. force as "guards" in Katanga. Using these undisciplined, ill-trained troops was a considerable risk, but the U.N. decided on the move...
Recalling that Menon had described the latest border violations as a "stab in the back," Mehta demanded: "When did you realize this? Did you realize it only the day before yesterday? If you realized it earlier, why didn't you make it known to the country?" Socialist Acharya Kripalani joined the broadside, charged that India's border forces were under "absolute orders" from Menon not to attempt to stop any Red Chinese border incursions...
...knows how many viruses there are or how to classify them. John Enders and six other internationally famous virologists* have just made a stab at classification in Virology, conceding that they are making "some dogmatic statements and sweeping suggestions based on grossly inadequate knowledge." They recognize 400 viruses as infecting vertebrates, rate 50 of them, including rabies, as unclassifiable, and put the rest in six groups (see chart). They leave out the large "mantle viruses'' of parrot fever and trachoma, which are vulnerable to antibiotics and other drugs...
...first time in ten months, the Congo's fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University's handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified barbed-wire fence, patrols of police dogs and Indian machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...
...arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...