Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weak, mister," he thundered. He also lambasted Bazargan's 17-member Cabinet as "weak characters" who believe that "everything should be copied from the West." Under Bazargan, Khomeini scoffed, "the nation lives in caves and nothing has changed." To make the revolution a reality, "carpets, furniture, Western trappings" must all be removed from the government...
Official casualty figures, Western observers believe, were as fictive as the rhetoric of triumph. Viet Nam boasted that it had "put out of action 45,000 enemy troops, knocked out 273 tanks and armored personnel carriers, and hit hundreds of artillery pieces and mortars." More realistically, perhaps, China claimed to have killed or wounded 10,000 Vietnamese and taken 1,000 prisoner...
...Western newsmen were allowed to the war zone from the Chinese side, and only a very few approached it through Viet Nam. Only two U.S. news organizations, United Press International and CBS-TV, managed to get near the front for a short time. They accompanied U.S. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on an escorted excursion from Hanoi to Lang Son, and disproved the report that it had fallen to the Chinese...
Scotland's Western Isles are a striking blend of savage shores and pastoral serenity, made famous in music by Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture. If Mendelssohn were alive, he might now compose a Hebrides dirge...
...hundreds of Western Isles, few are as precious to Scots as tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots...