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...Vietnamese officer saluted and put out his hand. "Captain Vo Cong Hieu, commanding 2nd Battalion," he said in passable English. Hieu was my Army of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn) counterpart, the man I would be advising. He was short, in his early 30s, with a broad face and an engaging smile. But for the uniform, I would have taken him for a genial schoolteacher...
...weeks later, Powell got the news he was waiting for: he and his 400-man battalion would embark on Operation Grasshopper, an extended patrol down A Shau Valley. The journey marked Powell's introduction not only to combat but also to its deadly consequences...
...America, however, where state security apparatuses are notorious for incorrigible corruption and brutality, many observers--including some middle-of-the-road members of Congress--believe a que sera attitude is insufficient. As a case in point, human-rights activist Ann Manuel cites the CIA's liaison with Honduras' infamous Battalion 316 during the years when the country was considered an essential anti-Sandinista bulwark. "For four years," she says, "you had U.S. training of a special-intelligence unit, specifically instructing them not to torture, yet they systematically tortured...
...cavalcade of buses and trucks, the Serbs mounted a full-scale "ethnic cleansing" operation. They packed thousands of Muslim women, children and old men into the vehicles and shuttled them west to territory controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. Assembling at the base of a Dutch U.N. battalion in Potocari, a town just north of Srebrenica, Muslim families walked to the buses through protective rows of peacekeepers. But behind the 400 Dutch soldiers stood glowering Bosnian Serb troops. "The most incredible thing was the silence," said a Serb witness. "It was the silence of pure terror." As the Muslims...
...Bosnia last week. A flight of helicopters lifted 60 Foreign Legionnaires and six heavy mortars off warships in the Adriatic and set them down in a heavily wooded area on Mount Igman, a strategic height overlooking Sarajevo. The platoon quickly moved into position to support a French infantry battalion that had been under attack by Bosnian Serbs...