Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonov, for his part, also did some skillful converting-linguistically. "Well done, Tom, it was a good show," said the Soviet air force colonel in his colloquial English. Mission rules called for each team to speak only the other's language and the Russians proved to be far better at dealing with that assignment than the Americans...
...occasional rest stops to gulp Gatorade, quickly learned that the Russians were not enthusiastic about the visit. When the Senator approached a barracks ship housing at least 200 Russians, a Soviet sailor refused to let him aboard. Later the party was barred from visiting the two radio stations. Explained Colonel Ahmed Suleiman, head of the security service: "Please understand that if it were up to me, I would let you in. But the Russians say, 'No Americans,' and the facility was built with their money." In the meantime, a U.S. technician was surveying the clusters of rhombic antennas...
...people should not abandon me because of my color and my race," implored the strained voice on a tape recording delivered to the American embassy in Beirut late last week. U.S. officials in the Lebanese capital quickly confirmed that the voice was that of a black U.S. Army officer, Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, 43, who had been kidnaped by terrorists on June...
...unlucky colonel apparently was a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. A 23-year veteran of military service, he had a one-day transit stopover in Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
Died. Otto Skorzeny, 67, audacious Nazi SS colonel, saboteur and guerrilla fighter during World War II; of bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed...