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Kirk Douglas plays a French colonel who must stand as defense counsel for three of his men after they are made scapegoats for a French military defeat. He's up against a snooty general (George MacReady) worried about preserving his good name, a prosecuting attorney (Richard Anderson) who actually raises a pointed finger to the heavens and shouts. "Find the accused guilty!" and a cast of sycophantic French civil servants. Douglas and most of the other actors have chosen to go for the grim, I'm-so-shaken-by-the-horrors-of-war-that-I-speak-in-a-monotone-without...
Only two characters seem strongly moved by the events of the film: the aforementioned prosecutor and the evil general, who is so consistently irate that he looks more like M*A*S*H*'s Colonel Potter on a back day than a man struggling with the responsibilities of authority in the face of bloody warfare...
WASHINGTON -- Air Force Lieut. Colonel Randy May is charged with 26 counts of negligent homicide for his role in the downing of two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq last April. The charges are not his first "official" recognition from the military. More than three years ago, during the Gulf War, May downed an Iraqi Hind helicopter in the same area and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his "professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty...
...shooting down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq last April with negligent homicide. Also charged, but with lesser crimes: five people who were aboard the AWACS radar plane that oversaw the action. The incident, one of the military's deadliest friendly fire tragedies, took the lives of 26 people. Lieut. Colonel Randy W. May could serve 26 years in prison if found guilty. No word yet about the fate of a second pilot, whom the Air Force hasn't identified...
...Dutch and other foreign donors gave the new country generous aid, but they cut back sharply in the 1980s when Suriname suffered a series of coups and massacres. The violence culminated in a six-year civil war that led to the fall of the military regime of Lieut. Colonel Desi Bouterse...