Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspections would be eased. In two weeks, talks are to begin in Mexico City on a joint antidrug effort. U.S. officials are calling that a victory, but it has the ring of a bugout too. The latest goal, as State spokesmen explain it, is a gradual "Mexicanization" of the war on drugs...
Niagara from a Faucet. Unless Osborne means to suggest that homosexuals are poor security risks (pace Joe McCarthy), the play is baffling. An entirely incredible epilogue links Redl to the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to World War I and everything that followed-which is rather like getting Niagara Falls out of a leaky faucet...
...delegates in Geneva that "the church has come down through history too often trying to carry the cross of Jesus in one hand and a dripping sword in the other." He energetically supported a host of social causes, and well after his retirement he continued to work against the war in Viet Nam and in behalf of the black population that lived in poverty not far from Riverside's neo-Gothic splendor. "Always take a job that's too big for you," he once proposed as a code of life, "and then do your best." No one followed...
...among the first of a rapidly growing number of former professional officers who have become top civilian executives in Israel. Since the Six-Day War, nearly 100 former generals and colonels have taken command positions in private or government-owned industry, banking, utilities, commerce and transportation. Often, they are recruited to executive suites a year or more before they pick up their first pension check, and can choose among a dozen offers...
Rare is the book publisher who gets the opportunity that befell Uri Ben-Ari, general manager of Tel Aviv's Lewin-Epstein Co. When he was recalled to his other job as an armored-brigade commander two weeks before the 1967 war, he organized a team of photographers and journalists and readied them to cover the battlefronts. Six weeks after he led Israeli tanks into the Arab part of Jerusalem, he brought out Victory, the first book on the war. It sold 150,000 copies in Israel alone, and has since been translated into English, French, German and Spanish...