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...longtime army colonel, clashed with those who thought writing in Expos should be a strictly academic discipline without autobiographical evidence. And some teachers felt him to be gruff and too dogmatic...
...body snatching began with pious denunciations of the decadent West in general and the U.S. in particular. The conclusion was strictly business. The last batch of hostages was traded for some of the Great Satan's slickest weapons, inventoried by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and routed to Iran through Israel with Ronald Reagan still reading the script: "No arms for hostages...
...deal with the ruthless gunmen who oppose the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which is scheduled for Oct. 30. As 26 Americans and five Canadians, the first of 1,600 U.N. troops and police, arrived in the capital, Haitian hard-liners, led by the police chief, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, have launched a campaign to sabotage the international effort. More than 100 Aristide supporters have been killed by thugs since July 3. Said one Haitian: "Those blue berets look like powder puffs...
...LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them...
...REALLY WAS A COLONEL IN THE Egyptian army. Cairo records confirm it. But everything else about Emad Salem is disputed or highly mysterious...