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Wearing flamboyant orange berets and somber brown camouflage uniforms, the 676 members of the 82nd Airborne Division bounded down the ramps of the two blue-and-white El Al jumbo jets. After a 14-hr, flight from Fort Bragg, N.C., they were emerging into the 80° temperature of the Sinai Peninsula-and spearheading a new role for the U.S. in the Middle East. There was a brief delay when it was discovered that the soldiers, like careless tourists, had forgotten to fill out Israeli immigration cards. Finally, clutching their M-16 rifles, the men set off on a nine...
Haig was in touch with me every day thereafter. On Thursday, Aug. 1, he said matters were heading toward resignation, though the Nixon family was violently opposed. On Friday, Aug. 2, he told me that Nixon was digging in his heels; it might be necessary to put the 82nd Airborne Division around the White House to protect the President. This I said was nonsense; a presidency could not be conducted from a White House ringed with bayonets. Haig said he agreed completely; as a military man it made him heartsick to think of the Army in that role; he simply...
Some 900 Salvadorans arrived last week at Fort Bragg's John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance, joining the 60 Salvadoran officers and NCOs who were already on the post. During the next three months, 185 Spanish-speaking U.S. Special Forces and 82nd Airborne Division instructors will teach them the light-infantry skills that an average G.I. might absorb in nearly a full year. The program includes everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon...
...week's end, 850 members of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into the Egyptian desert near Cairo West in a mock assault. In subsequent days and weeks, across the expanse of northeast Africa, other exercises will range from the field testing of water purification systems to full-scale U.S.-Egyptian army exercises. The most spectacular event will occur on Nov. 24, when six B-52 bombers, flying from North Dakota bases and refueled three times in midair, will skim across the Egyptian desert at an altitude of a few hundred feet and drop live bombs (see map), a feat...
Inspired by his team's performances this season, women's cross country coach JOHN BABINGTON competed in the Heartbreak 10 kilometer Classic last Sunday and finished 82nd in a field of more than 3000 runners. Babington's time of 35 minutes was his best in a number of years... Because runners burn off so many calories when they put in their numerous miles of training, they are able to maintain lithe bodies while eating vast quantities of food. They demonstrated this exceptional ability last weekend when they descended upon senior MARY HERLIHY's house in Worcester after the Eastern Championships...