Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-three of the 47 awards are full tuition scholarships, covering registration fee, two four-unit courses, with the option of auditing an additional two four-unit courses free. The other 24 cover registration, one four-unit course, and a one-course audit if desired...
...Malaya, where 98% of the Communist strength is among the Chinese, Manap Jepun was a key man. He was one of the few Malayans who would desert Allah for Marx. So he was placed in command of the loth (Malay) Regiment, a unit about 150 men strong and the only all-Malayan regiment on the Communist side...
Last week, sprawled astride the main Red invasion route on the Ninety-Nine Hills beyond Indo-China's Bacninh, the men of the Legion's 3rd Regiment-the most decorated unit in the French army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring...
...sniper winged him. But for a man of his intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book on the Spanish civil...
...secret police are everywhere," he said. There are unknown informers in every factory, ship, farm, army unit. It has reached the point where the people are afraid to express opinions, except to expose deviation of others. "But," Kirk remarked, "the more uneasy and unhappy the people are, the more secure the leader...