Word: usta
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...first cab I see; it is the one that nearly hit me coming our of the Garden onto Causeway St. The cab driver is a trifle taken back, but once he knows where I've come from, he warms up considerably. "What about that Jagger fella? Y'know I usta get sing in a band, a ways back. Usta get laid twenty times a night." The proprietors of the flowers shop are helpful. Particularly when it becomes apparent that six or eight dozen flowers wouldn't be nearly enough. I decide to spend the whole thirty dollars, and come away...
...invaders were members of the Ustaše, a fascist organization that had ruled Croatia under Hitler during World War II, and has agitated from abroad for Croatian secession ever since (TIME, June 5). The raiders were believed to have been recruited from right-wing Croats now living in Western Europe and Australia. Making a mockery of Yugoslavia's border security, they crossed illegally into the country from Austria on June 26 with an arsenal of submachine guns, rifles with telescopic sights, pistols with silencers and a portable radio station. They stole a truck from a mineral-water bottling...
Instead of being welcomed as liberators, they were met by apathy or open hostility. They were also greeted by security police, civil guardsmen and soldiers stationed at one of Tito's heavily guarded hunting lodges a few miles away. Yugoslav authorities claim they "broke up and destroyed" the Ustaše unit, killing a dozen of the attackers and wounding another dozen. One Yugoslav officer and nine soldiers were killed, and half of the raiders escaped into the mountains. The age of the invaders -most were in their early 20s and had emigrated only in the past year...
Conceivably the Ustaše hoped its foray into Bosnia would trigger a wave of sympathetic demonstrations on behalf of the accused separatists. If so, the plan misfired badly. Instead of aiding the defendants, the raid came as a windfall for the prosecution; it gave credence to Belgrade's repeated accusation that Croat "chauvinists" at home are linked with Croat extremists in exile. In fact, the timing of the incident was so convenient for the prosecution that it prompted speculation-so far unconfirmed -that the Yugoslav secret police, who have heavily infiltrated the Ustaše, may have lured...