Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...region of Mount Troodos, the parachuters cordoned off a circular area while 2,000 British soldiers and Cyprus police moved into the villages. Operation "Black Mac," concluded last week, was rated by the British the largest and most successful campaign yet against EOKA, the Union-with-Greece underground that in the last 22 months has assassinated 98 British and 140 Cypriots on Britain's island base in the Mediterranean...
...soldiers' task simpler was that Cypriots were talking-a sign, in the eyes of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, that they are weary of fruitless terrorism. A man found in possession of a pistol (under the emergency regulations, an offense punishable by death) volunteered to tell of an underground hideout. After a hard search on terraced hillside vineyards, the soldiers found a 2-ft.-by-2-ft. opening leading down to a 15-ft.-by-10-ft. subterranean room. Three terrorists, smoked out of this room, told of other secret places. A total of 17 hideouts...
...Ohio bends into West Virginia, the advantages of cheap power and good water, plus a vast underground block of salt 200 miles long and more than 100 ft. thick, have attracted scores of chemical companies: Columbia?Southern Chemical Corp., Koppers Co., Shea Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Monsanto Chemical. Farther along, other companies are spending over $300 million to make everything from jet-engine parts to autos and electronic tubes...
FIGHTING WARSAW, by Stefan Korbonski (495 pp., Macmillan; $6.75), presents the memoirs of the last leader of the Polish underground, and for the first time fully tells the story of the thousands who died in a futile effort to free Poland. At first, the politically ill-assorted, mutually suspicious underground leaders fell easy prey to the Germans. The flamboyance of the rank and file who took to wearing "uniforms" of top boots and padded jackets also led to wholesale arrests. Yet out of blundering and indecision, the stubborn Poles whipped together perhaps the most potent underground fighting force in Europe...
When the Jews of Warsaw made their despairing 1943 insurrection against the Germans, the underground felt unable to offer armed help. Korbonski's radio team flashed the news to London as they watched smoke and fire rising from the ghetto (said Korbonski's wife: "It will be easier for them to die with the knowledge that the world hears how they are dying"). A year later, the underground rose in its turn against the Nazis in an effort to seize Warsaw before the onrushing Soviet troops crossed the Vistula. For 63 days the Poles fought desperately, while...