Word: tat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Gamal Abdel Nasser has been fomenting all manner of uprisings, internal strife and coups d'état through out Africa and the Middle East. Last week it became clear that he had suffered a dose of his own medicine- and nearly choked on it. Spread across Cairo's government-controlled papers was news of an incredible plot to assassinate Nasser and most of his top aides, blow up the nation's major power plants and communications centers, and unleash a reign of terror that would sweep out his regime and install an entirely different...
...million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion to activate their endocrines...
...Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...
...influence has worried a nation that still vividly recalls the bitter 1946-49 civil war with the Communists. The young King fired Papandreou because he believed the Premier was intriguing to neutralize even the passionately royalist Greek army. Nonetheless, his action brought savage cries of "coup d'état" in a land that still regards its 135-year-old monarchy as an imported institution, and which since 1917 has sent both Constantine's uncle and his grandfather off into exile...
...anything." That is where Ho was born, in 1890, when France dominated Indo-China-much to the disgust of Ho's father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...