Word: batallions
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...some curious looks, but it's all very friendly," said batallion executive officer Richard G. McGrath, a MIT senior who serves as the unit'ssecond-in-command...
...other business, the council heard from Nancy Ryan, a coordinator of Cambridge's sister city relationship with San Jose Las Flores in El Salvador. Ryan said the El Salavdoran town was occupied last week by a batallion of that country's treasury police...
...batallion--which Ryan said was specially trained by U.S. forces--comandeered the local schoolhouse as a garrison and captured Manuel Cartagena, the former mayor of San Jose Las Flores who visited Cambridge last spring...
...20th anniversary of the 1969 Harvard student strike occurred yesterday, it is more than slightly ironic that a full batallion meeting of the ROTC took place on campus this semester for the first time since those turbulent days two decades past...
...their presence can not change the sectional hatred and hostility that has fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will continue to bicker and fight regardless of any foreign military presence. Foreign armies many times larger than a meager batallion of Marines have unsuccessfully tried to pacify Lebanon. Faced with a pointless, perepetuzl war of attrition Israel chose to withdraw. Why then is the United States becoming ever more enmeshed in this senseless conflict that can not but end in tragedy...