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...article, Jeffrey Goldberg, the New York bureau chief of The forward, a weekly Yiddish newspaper, cites the commanders of the 761 st Infantry Division and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion as saying their units were nowhere near Dachau and Buchenwald, camps which the filmmakers say the Black units helped liberate...
...never realized the tremendous educational value of "G.I. Joe," the television cartoon in which a battalion of soldiers heeds the battle-cry "Yo Joe!" to fight against an evil enemy...
...victims' relatives want those responsible tried for murder, even though a new amnesty law prevents any of the perpetrators from having to serve time for political crimes. They would also welcome the final dissolution of the notorious battalion, as was stipulated under the current peace plan signed by both the government and the rebels last January. But the San Salvador government has indefinitely suspended the battalion's disbanding, claiming the F.M.L.N. has yet to demobilize its troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will not meet...
...what some journalists and human-rights activists have said for years: as many as 800 civilians, most of them women and children, were mutilated, burned and < murdered in and around the remote northeastern town of El Mozote in 1981, by soldiers from the Salvadoran army's U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion...
...mark, so do his claims that he served his country "in uniform" in contrast to the Democratic standard bearer. The fact is that of all the three baby- boomer candidates running this year, only Gore saw duty in Vietnam -- albeit as a noncombatant Army reporter with the 20th Engineering Battalion outside Saigon. Quayle avoided the draft and Vietnam by using his family connections to help him gain admittance to the Indiana National Guard -- a solution that Bill Clinton was considering at about the same time in Arkansas before he found other ways to stay out of the army...