Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Syria, as a result of a coup in Damascus last week, may seek to join the new federation despite its geographic separation from the three other members. Defense Minister Hafez Assad, 40, staged the coup by quietly dispatching his intelligence agents to arrest President Noureddine Atassi and General Salah Jadid, who had been the strongman of Syria's extremist Baathist party. The more moderate Assad, who apparently moved to get Jadid before Jadid could get him, had been ordered to resign as Defense Minister by the Baathist congress. If he can keep control of the government, Assad might...
...tourists on a fishing trip, the Lotzes drove toward the camp and managed to get themselves arrested. "I was afraid they would simply send us away," says Lotz. "Fortunately, they took us straight into the base." Once there, Lotz talked the commandant into calling his old friend Brigadier General Fuad Osman, a highly placed Egyptian intelligence officer. The conversation, as Lotz recalls...
...result is that German has become peppered with what might be called deutschlisch words and phrases. Many of the hybrid words come from the aeronautic or computer fields, but many more are general terms like die Eskalation, die Antibabypille, der Selfmademan and der Allroundman...
...year and a month more than the sympathetic prosecution had requested. He has already served one year of the sentence in Rome's bleak Queen of Heaven jail while awaiting trial. The penalty will be reduced by two more years as a result of a recent general amnesty, and another amnesty is expected in a couple of years. Moreover, he can get time off for good behavior. There is also a possibility that he will be free by next spring, for if the court does not respond to his appeal within six months, he will have to be released...
...mark their destination: the town of Kars in eastern Turkey, 20 miles from the Soviet border. They put down, but as they taxied toward the terminal, the men spotted what looked startlingly like a red star on a nearby helicopter. "It must be a Turkish red crescent," muttered Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer, 57, head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey and one of two American generals on board...