Word: manned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever developing foolproof security. Says one: "If a man is dedicated enough to die for a cause, air-piracy laws and the threat of extradition are not likely to deter him, are they...
...rash of requests for asylum. By Christmas, the last day of the tour, the tourists were sharing anguished doubts whether they should go through with it or return to the familiarity-and growing repression-of their homeland. Pointing to some of the eleven children on the tour, one man said: "Some of us parents are too old to really ever be happy in a new country. We are doing it for our children. They must have the chance." A blonde, her eyes red from weeping, worried about her mother at home. "If I were the only one, I wouldn...
...Stalin for "diverging from the Leninist principles of collective leadership," which resulted in "unfounded reprisals against prominent party, state and military figures." Shorn of its jargon, the statement means that the present collective leadership is not at all tempted to return to the principal feature of Stalinism: absolute one-man rule, reinforced by mass police terror. The men in the Kremlin well know that the Stalinist system would devour those who set it in motion again, as it once devoured tens of thousands of Stalin's colleagues. If Stalin's role as a World War II military leader...
...release just before Christmas seemed to gladden every heart, and the newspapers were full of nostalgia about the man once known as "the Babe Ruth of bank robbers." After 17 years of New York's Attica State Prison (and a lifetime total of more than 35 years in jail), Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, a tired, sick old man of 68, was ready with some wistful reminiscing of his own. "People don't seem to want to work hard for anything any more," said Willie. "Years ago, cons used to approach me in various prison yards...
Vatican officials were taken with an anonymously donated portrait of a handsome young man in a windblown, cassocklike robe. In their eyes, it symbolized a devoted missionary priest, and they hung the painting near Pope Paul's own likeness in the press room of the Holy See. It had been in place more than a month when someone noted that the young priest bore a suspicious resemblance to the figure in a Red Chinese propaganda poster. The artist, a little investigation revealed, had copied a portrait of Chairman Mao as a youth of 27, striding through Kiangsi province...