Word: young
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...certain to prove costly % for the country's weary civilians. Deserters from Hun Sen's army tell stories suggesting that some of the 40,000 regulars lack both the esprit and basic fighting skills required to hold back the resistance forces. The army's recent practice of shanghaiing young conscripts off the streets is not likely to generate goodwill -- or good soldiers. The national battalions are supplemented by local and provincial militias, perhaps 150,000 in all, which Hun Sen hopes will do better at defending their homes. As yet, both the army and the rural militias are largely untested...
...style on John Kennedy's Camelot, Marcos and his wife enthralled most Filipinos when he initially took office. He also set about fulfilling his campaign promises of reforms in industry and education. But by his second term, in January 1970, the tide had begun to turn against the brilliant young President. Protesting the country's economic inequities, militant anti-American students pelted the Marcoses with rocks and bottles, forcing the couple to bolt themselves inside Malacanang Palace for their own security...
...David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Theodore P. Roth, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Eric A. Berk (Manager); Genevieve Christy, Peter Mitchel (Deputies); Patricia Hermes, Camille Sanabria, Linda D. Vartoogian; Wayne Chun, Sheila Greene, Carl Harmon, Gene Isaac, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu, Esther F. Rodriguez, Katherine Young...
...married. He made two trips to Rome, both financed by the King, who had some difficulty getting him back -- the first time because Velazquez had gone into an ecstasy of discovery (Rome, in 1630, was the world's capital of contemporary as well as ancient art, and the young artist was absorbing the lessons of Caravaggio, Poussin and Guido Reni), and the second time because Velazquez, now in his 50s, was basking in his European reputation. And in between, nothing but security and hard work...