Word: tricolor
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...continuing to kill each other, or, like good Harvard students, considered how complex the whole problem must be. But complexity is an excuse that means nothing to the 20,000 people, maybe more, who watched them bury Bobby Sands, watched his coffin go by draped with the proud tricolor of Ireland and the black gloves and beret of the army that fights to free it. Hundreds took to the streets later, to throw rocks. They don't understand why they must live their lives with British troops standing on the corner. They don't understand why Bobby Sands...
...indeed a photogenic journey, studded with fluttering tricolor bunting, fireworks displays and stirring military reviews. Accompanied by his attractive wife Anne-Aymone, Giscard purposely passed up such major cities as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in order to tour what he called l'Allemagne profonde (Germany in depth). His stops included Baden-Baden, Kassel, Würzburg and Lübeck, all towns with populations under 230,000. He also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often...
...sound of national anthems and smartly clicking heels, an Egyptian soldier solemnly kissed his country's red-white-and-black tricolor and hoisted it in the place of the blue-on-white Israeli star of David. With that exchange of flags last week, under a blazing sun in the desert outpost of Bir Nasib, another slab of the Sinai Peninsula duly changed hands in accordance with the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
...former post exchange, Israeli officers formally returned the town of El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egyptian sovereignty. Honor guards of both armies stood stiffly at attention as the blue-and-white Israeli flag was lowered and then replaced by the red, white and black Egyptian tricolor. Military bands played the national anthems of both nations as Israel honored its treaty commitment to return to Cairo's authority an 80-mile strip along the Mediterranean coast...
...news for M. & M. The 1979 garden catalogues piling into mailboxes this spring offer a number of vegetables that look like spinach, taste better than spinach, but are not Spinacia oleracea. Some of them have been imported from the Orient, notably shungiku (Chrysanthemum coronarium) and tampala hinn choy (Amaranthus tricolor...