Word: war-torn
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Despite vicious threats and attempts on their lives, they have displayed during this year tremendous bravery in their valiant efforts to bring peace to their war-torn country...
Died. Edouard Saab, 47, editor of Beirut's French-language daily newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour; of a sniper's bullet; in war-torn Beirut, while driving to the Moslem side of the battle line after two days of reporting on the Christians. A Maronite Christian born in Syria, Saab drifted into journalism after studying law at Beirut's St. Joseph University. The author of two books on the Middle East, Saab at the time of his death was writing one on Lebanon's present conflict, which he feared could lead to genocide...
...film of a lifetime for you. A virginal 18 year old recruit in the Red Army, which is reeling from the German assault of 1941, is decorated for heroism at the front and granted a short leave home to visit his mother. This journey home, through the interior of war-torn Russia is complete with a love affair and an emotional reunion with mother and comrades at what appears to be a collective farm. The beauty of the scenery and the beauty of his unfulfilled romance combine to make this a remarkably moving film...
...failure to back the anti-Communist forces in Angola surely casts some doubt on American strength and resolve-but how seriously? World reaction is divided, and opinion depends on proximity to the war-torn former Portuguese territory. In Africa, a number of moderate black leaders-as well as South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster-are clearly anguished. In general, the moderates are less concerned about direct Russian influence and bases in Angola than about the prospect that potential Soviet client states, beefed up with Russian military and economic aid, might be tempted to interfere in the domestic affairs...
...week as the rebels dropped what might be called a Khmer curtain over the country they had just conquered. As of week's end, ten days after the fall of Phnom-Penh, very little was known about the composition of the new regime, how it was running the war-torn state or what had become of the defeated leaders who were unable to escape. With normal lines of communication severed, roads blocked and airports closed, Cambodia was almost completely...