Word: unites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legionnaire, I say three cheers for the French Foreign Legion, the greatest fighting unit of our times...
...familiar syndrome of corruption. College recruiters, though technically barred from sweet-talking hot prospects, have nonetheless found ways to hound young, often unsophisticated athletes. Tales of under-the-table payments and inducements?a new car or postschool job?have begun to circulate. The A.I.A.W. has no full-time enforcement unit to oversee violations, subscribing instead to the credo that conscience is more powerful than compulsion. "We are built upon self-policing," says Joan Hult, head of the A.I.A.W.'S Ethics and Eligibility Committee...
...abortion, even though the state would have paid for it. Instead, she elected to move into the private Florence Crittenton Association home, where all her expenses are taken care of by the State Welfare Office. Should she decide to keep the baby, the two may form a new family unit eligible for HEW Aid to Families with Dependent Children, though they live in the same household with her parents. Her monthly check...
...battle-hungry members of the world's most-storied fighting unit, last week's 650-paratroop rescue mission in Shaba represented a rare chance to relive a glorious and bloodied past. Not since 1970, when a group of commandos put down a modest rebellion in the African Republic of Chad, had the Foreign Legion seen action in the field. Nowadays, most legionnaires spend their time on such mundane tasks as putting out forest fires in Corsica, constructing roads in French Guiana and guarding French nuclear testing sites in Tahiti...
...merely high spirits, however. The choice of Argentina as the World Cup venue, a decision made in 1966, has drawn strong criticism from human rights activists. One reason: the widespread operation in Argentina of rightwing death squads searching for members of the left-wing Montoneros terrorist units that have plagued the country for the past eight years. Amnesty International has launched a campaign against alleged torture used by government officials on Argentine political prisoners, and is backed by, among others, the West German Protestant Church. Anti-Argentina protesters in France bombed a travel agency offering World Cup tours. An assailant...