Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if word of this complex plan can be relayed to the isolated bands of fighters spread throughout the countryside, the problem may not be over. Guerrilla commanders concede that many of their troops are young, in their teens or early 20s, undisciplined and unwilling to end the war before the government's forces have been decisively defeated. Exhorted a ZANLA manifesto found near the bodies of several whites killed in a town near the Mozambique border: "Down with the ceasefire. Forward with the war." More important, many of the guerrillas are unlikely to passively accept any result other...
Many seem to miss the sense of national unity and purpose they felt under Stalin in World War II and the hope that peace would bring real freedom. For them, Stalin's birthday is an event to be remembered, if not celebrated. Says one Moscow intellectual: "The longing is not for Stalin himself; very few people approve of that style of leadership. It's the dream they miss...
...attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge for a U.S. district court in New York in April 1971. Two months later, in the most celebrated decision of his career, he ruled against the Government in its attempt to suppress...
...likely to point out that "the best in vestment of all is the missionary investment," after citing figures snowing that the average "overseas conversion to Christianity costs just $654 per convert - as opposed to the cost of $200,000 to kill a single enemy soldier in World War II or $500,000 per kill in Viet Nam. It takes character to preserve freedom, he insists. The Ten Commandments, in fact, are ten principles from God about how to keep freedom...
...Third World War, Hackett...