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...Mankato, Minnesota. The lineman was a first-round draft pick and famously generous. When he was selected for the Pro Bowl, Stringer signed over his check to buy equipment for his high-school team. DIED. BERTIE FELSTEAD, 106, last known surviving member of the World War I British battalion that left the trenches in northern France on Christmas Day, 1915, to play soccer with German soldiers in a spontaneous truce; in Gloucester, U.K. The enemies also chatted and shared cigarettes before a British major ordered an end to the fraternizing. DIED. JOHN WALTERS, 63, witty bbc radio and TV personality...
...settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...Sierra Leone is the biggest in the world. By the end of the year 17,500 troops from 31 armies, including large contingents from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, will be stationed there. "Soldiers all over the world interact with women," says Lieut. Colonel James Oladipo, head of a Nigerian battalion in Makeni. "Women come to the men on roadblocks at night and play music. But our troops are disciplined." Still, in the world's poorest country, women reportedly fight over who gets to sleep with Oladipo's troops. "The RUF told the girls if they fight for the Nigerians they...
...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...
...among their peers as disciplined soldiers and meticulous planners, prevented from responding quickly to unexpected situations because their every move has to be checked with Tokyo-based officials. "As Canadians we just wing a lot of things," says Lieut. Colonel Bruce Harding, who commands the joint Canadian-Japanese logistics battalion. "The Japanese are much more precise and orderly. You don't want to surprise them with anything...