Word: stalingrad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arens acknowledges occasional acts of cannibalism. Two weeks ago, for example, Emperor Bokassa I, the deposed leader of the Central African Republic, was reportedly accused of practicing cannibalistic rites. Examples of eating human flesh for survival in emergencies (e.g., the siege of Stalingrad, the Andes plane crash in 1972) also abound...
...STALINGRAD. By the summer of 1942, the German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus...
...long been estranged from her husband, Julian Ruiz, 87, who was also a Communist. He returned from Soviet exile in 1972 and lives in a Basque village in northern Spain. Four of their six children died in infancy; a son Ruben was killed in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. A surviving daughter, Amaya, is married to a Russian general...
...those who want other battles -or other wars-there will be plenty more. Cross of Iron is the story of the German retreat across Russia after Stalingrad; Dog Soldiers revolves around three Viet Nam veterans who become involved with both heroin and the CIA; and The Eagle Has Landed is a fictional account of a German attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. The towering Tory, a famous old brandy sniffer, would at least like the casting. He is portrayed by the proprietor of the Beehive, a country pub in Kent...
...Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...