Word: war-torn
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...year's invasion, the rebels?who call themselves the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.)?began to recruit new members in refugee camps of Zaïrian-born Lunda tribesmen inside Angola, much to Luanda's annoyance. Understandably alarmed by the growth of this potentially unruly force in a civil war-torn country, Neto's government closed down the F.N.L.C. office in Luanda last January. Apparently with some reluctance, it also allowed some of its Cuban advisers to visit the main Katangese camp at Chicapa in northeastern Angola, prior to the incursion, to provide last-minute tactical advice...
...kibbutz leaders have been talking to each other secretly, in Hebrew, about what is going on; but as a recent entrant to the kibbutz, I am not told what is taking place. My questions go unanswered; there is no concept of the public's right to know in war-torn Israel...
...Times's foreign reporting remains unrivaled among newspapers. Timesman Sydney Schanberg's files from Cambodia won a Pulitzer in 1976, and James Markham's dispatches last year from war-torn Beirut should have. But the Washington bureau, the fief of Arthur Krock in the 1940s and '50s, then James Reston in the '50s and '60s, was overshadowed during Watergate by the Washington Post, now its chief rival on the national scene. The New York paper has recovered somewhat, beating the Post to major Washington scoops about CIA domestic spying and drug experimentation on unwitting civilians. The Post has been giving...
...audience. Thus was born the Marshall Plan, an epochal -and magnanimous-undertaking unmatched in all of history. Through it, in the space of four years, the U.S. would spend an unheard-of $13.6 billion to underwrite the economic -and in a sense, the social and political-recovery of war-torn Western Europe, defeated enemies included...
Vance did not come bearing any grand new schemes, and he listened more than he spoke. At each of his stops, his approach was basically the same -except for Lebanon, where he concentrated almost exclusively on the internal problems of that war-torn country. In Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, he was the persistent interlocutor, running through his list of prepared questions in an attempt to discover new subtleties in the Arab and Israeli positions. How much occupied territory, for example, should Israel relinquish? When and how ought the Geneva talks to be reconvened? What role should...