Word: bayonets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded 2,000 medals to soldiers, civil servants and relatives. Among those honored were his latest wife Sarah, 20, and his son Mwanga, 6, who appeared in an army camouflage uniform, carrying a toy rifle with bayonet. In Amin's sentimental citation, he lauded his wife and boy because "they worked so untiringly with me on the night of the raid on Entebbe...
...real obscene stuff. Pictures of naked women lying on bearskin rugs with upthrust breasts may be sexist and demeaning, but pictures of women with khaki shirts opened and cartridge belts across their breasts are perverse. And the photo of a woman whose lip was cut off "with a rusty bayonet," run with an article on war in Rhodesia, belongs in a medical journal or a hysterical editorial to end all war. The mercenaries' stance is that war is grim business but somebody's got to do it, and this picture is hideous, but somebody...
...Forces Qualification Test in San Antonio, after failing it in Lufkin. Sent last year to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate in a pugil-stick fight (a simulated bayonet drill in which 12-lb. poles padded on both ends are used as weapons), Bronson ordered other recruits to whale away at McClure, even after the 115-lb. youth fell to the ground screaming for mercy. He died in a hospital after doctors removed half of his crushed skull...
...verdict. After deliberating less than four hours-including a break for dinner -the board last week acquitted Staff Sergeant Harold Bronson of involuntary manslaughter, maltreatment and assault. Bronson, a drill instructor (D.I.), was tried for the death last March of Private Lynn E. ("Bubba") McClure. During a mock bayonet drill supervised by Bronson, other recruits beat McClure, 20, a mental retardate, into a vegetable...
...shortage of infantry weapons is not so critical, because every able-bodied man 16 years of age and over is required to have a gun for his militia duty; but some of these arms get lost or damaged. Washington announced not long ago: "For every [musket] with a bayonet that have not been abused, I will give 12 dollars." Not too many have answered that request, though, for a new gun now costs 15 to 18 Spanish dollars or other coin...