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...protective garb worked. Physicians who wore the garb did not get the plague, whereas monks who tended the sick without benefit of the armor did. This was because the plague was transmitted by fleas...
UNLIMITED MILEAGE. Drug terrorism has increased the cost of getting Attorney General Richard Thornburgh around. The nation's top cop now rides in a $100,000 armor-plated limo instead of a Government-issue...
Many of the Poles had fought gallantly, though, and it was here in the battle for the corridor that there spread the legend of the Polish cavalry charging German armor, like medieval knights lost in a time warp. "The Polish Pomorska Cavalry Brigade, in ignorance of the nature of our tanks, charged them with swords and lances," Guderian recalled with some wonder, "and suffered tremendous losses." Actually, the Polish cavalry was organized to combat infantry charges, and it had proved its value when the Poles defeated the Soviets in 1920. But by the time it confronted the German tanks...
...expected confrontation between military factions never materialized. By the end of the week, 27th Army soldiers who had participated in the Tiananmen assault had decamped and were replaced by fresh troops from other regiments unconnected with the massacre. Only hours after Deng's appearance on TV, long columns of armor left the city. The military maneuvers served mainly to camouflage a deep political conflict. The massacre at Tiananmen may have been just a violent stage in the ongoing struggle of succession, not unlike the turmoil that has occurred throughout Chinese history whenever a dynasty waned...
...machines are parading by -- the Indiana Joneses and Star Treks and Ghostbusters -- wearing roman numerals like kill counts on their armor plate. In a steamroller summer, what's a low-budget comedy to do? Strut as brightly and bawdily as possible. Anyway, that is the tactic of the new film from Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), which intrudes on the monster-movie scene like a kid blowing a May Day raspberry in Red Square...