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...like another season of six .500 ball clubs battling for post-season playoff honors. But if everything goes as planned, it appears that the Mets will give it their usual slow start and then catapult into first place during the final weeks of the season. However, if Yogi's battalion falters, look for the Cards to slide into the New York power vacuum...
...Golan Heights, "the Syrians fire sporadically," said one Israeli battalion commander. "We never know when they will begin, and we don't know when they will stop. There is no logic to it." In fact, the logic was to get the Israelis to negotiate seriously. The firing may also have been designed to reassure hawks back in Damascus that President Hafez Assad is truly determined to recover all Syrian land captured by Israel in two wars...
...wheeled through the streets of Prague on his way to the induction station, crying "On to Belgrade!", and is apotheosized by the official press as the most gallant of volunteers for the great glory of the Austro-Hungarian cause. Thereafter he contrives to misplace both his papers and his battalion-which keeps him from having to fight the Serbs or the Russians for weeks and weeks...
...technique that is not familiar to Anglo-Saxon literature but is a staple of Middle Europe. A general, getting to heaven, demands to know why the soldiers he passes do not do "Eyes right." His driver explains that they cannot because their heads have been blown off. When the battalion goes to get rations, they get instead a postcard with the message...
...military ally," Galbraith wrote, "the entire Laos nation is clearly inferior to a battalion of conscientious objectors from World War I. We get nothing from their support and I must say I wonder what the Communists...