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...formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true, but it's irrelevant...
...community, but Coppola saw fit to entirely re-edit the film and add 53 minutes worth of footage, which now clocks in at a whopping 3 1/4 hours. The original tale where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent up the Nung river in Vietnam to meet the potentially insane Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) and "terminate with extreme prejudice," has been altered to heighten some of the film's sparse humorous moments, as Coppola has added one scene with Marlon Brando, as well as included scenes with Playboy Playmates. The August 15th release coincides with the 22nd anniversary of the film...
...Mindful of the fear of Japanese militarism throughout Asia that still lingers from World War II and restrained by the country's constitutional bar on military aggression, Japan proscribed its troops with curtailed rules of engagement. Their presence was meant to be more symbolic than confrontational. Says Lieut. Colonel Amir Mokady, who heads Israel's army liaison with the U.N. forces on the Golan, Israel is glad to have a big industrial nation like Japan participating in the peacekeeping force on its border. "They have a lot of influence on global points of view," he says...
...Japanese on the Golan have earned a reputation 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...
...ACQUITTED. LIEUT. COLONEL OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO, a hero of the 1974 pro-democracy revolution that ended dictatorship in Portugal, after a 17-year-long terrorism trial; by a court in Lisbon...