Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STRIKE FORCE would be no help to future presidents faced with crisis like the embassy takeover, except to give them one more option that could endanger hostage' lives. But it would be very convenient for future Secretaries of State who might itch to tip the balance in some civil war in Africa or Asia. Proponents of the force say that today our government understands the dangers of intervening in complex local conflicts, and would only use a quick-strike force to defend our "legitimate interests...
Nguyen Ngoc Huy, research associate on Southeast Asian affairs at the Law School, also suggested that Carter pressure Vietnam not to use starvation as a weapon in its war against Cambodian rebels...
...quickly, like the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road to... series with which they have much in common. But Woody, though sprightly, dislikes himself for his relentless spry evasiveness (and it's been less and less prominent in his recent films); the innocence that met a popular demand in the post-war years won't do in the sophisticate seventies...
Some local historians, unwilling to get only facts surrounding the Revolutionary War, aren't stopping with written records. One ceremony, Dickerson said, may even commemorate the journey of Leif Ericson up the Charles River to the site of Mt. Auburn Hospital nearly 1000 years ago. Honest, there's even a placque that says he was there...
...War (Little, Brown; 184 pages; $17.50), Richard Humble, an English military historian, goes further than most of his fraternity to get it all in. Some of his vignettes of battle scenes-half-crazed English soldiers fighting naked at Agincourt, defeated German troops stumbling drunkenly from the First Marne-are as telling as his descriptions of the pettifoggery, vanity and incompetence of commanders and politicians. Together with an introductory section recapitulating ancient wars and a final chapter previewing the next (and last), Humble incisively analyzes 18 great victories from the day of the longbow to the era of the missile...