Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who are superficially very similar to one and yet actually possess that single unknown quality that defies explanation. That is how many of Thrace's neighbors must have felt. The Greeks, for example, were both baffled and obsessed by the Thracians, and so labelled them "barbarians." The Trojan War was waged largely to gain control of Thrace's Hellespont (the Dardanelles). So there were definite strategic motives for heeding that nation. And yet it put forward, in some regions, what to the Greeks seemed bizarre notions, particularly about death...
There are 150,000 Eritreans in Asmara, and every one is a potential saboteur-"our Trojan horse," says one Ethiopian commander, referring to the civilian population. Two weeks ago, the E.L.F. sent a radio message to its units inside Asmara advising them that buses were urgently needed to carry wounded soldiers to a field hospital. The response came 24 hours later: eight large Ethiopian buses were hijacked just after midnight, spirited out of the city and driven to an E.L.F. aid station 20 miles away...
King Agamemnon (Jamil Zakkai) has returned from the Trojan War with a concubine, Cassandra (Priscilla Smith...
...allowed to stand in the way of friendship "with any other state." And if it did, he added, the treaty "must be dissolved." He rejected outright any notion of a domestic political alliance with the Moscow-leaning Communist Party of India. "I don't want a Trojan horse," he said...
...Trojan Horses. A battle was developing in Mississippi, where signs of a backlash surfaced over the attempt to promote a Ford takeover-and at week's end a narrow majority seemed to be leaning to Reagan. "The Ford folks tried some overkill, and I think it's backfired on them," observed State Republican Chairman Clarke Reed. He accused Ford's local delegate hunters of "high-pressure tactics and lies." He said that one of them called another delegate and said, "If you don't sign on by 9 a.m., you won't be a federal...