Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then Major Biestek took command in the way he knows best: airpower. With recruits from a local model airplane club, he sent up a squadron of a dozen remote-controlled planes to engage the starlings in dogfights. Said Biestek: "When you saw a flock coming in, you just aimed an airplane at it. The airplanes have a very high fright index. We got rid of well over 95% of the birds." The starlings were only scared to death, not actually dead; no bird casualties have been confirmed. But five of Biestek's planes were downed, two permanently...
...reported bloodbath in Leimus, in which as many as 50 Miskito Indians were shot or drowned, was part of an operation ordered by the Sandinista high command in Managua to evacuate a zone some 50 miles deep on the Nicaragua-Honduras border from Santa Isabel eastward along the Coco River to the coast. Beginning in mid-December, Sandinista forces evacuated or burned between 25 and 40 Miskito villages, allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos...
Another difference between now and then: the Viet Cong had spent decades building up their cadres, fighting skills, command structure and supply lines; they also had North Viet Nam, with its huge regular army, first backing them up, then leading them in their conquest. The Salvadoran insurgency, by contrast, is limited to about 6,000 active fighters, many of whom are recent converts to the cause. The closest analogue to a North Viet Nam in Central America is Nicaragua, which is not really very close at all. The Sandinista regime there is still young and insecure. True, it is gravitating...
...Boot takes another plunge into the black pool of memory and finds-surprise!-flinty nobility. Actually, no surprise for anyone who feasted on the submarine movies of the 1950s. Here is the dogged captain (Jürgen Prochnow), navigating g the straits of political bureaucracy ""and a bungling high command. Here is the wild-eyed wraith of the engine room (Erwin Leder), who "cracks" during one crisis, then performs heroically in the next. Here are the hide-and-seek battles, the claustrophobic tensions, the respect for a valiant enemy. As with David, the novelty here is getting the inside German...
...know if we're in command now because we're still tied with Cornell (the Big Red best Maine, 8-2, to retain a share of the Ivy lead)." Yale's Bob Brooke said after the game. "But I will any this--if we play like this we'll be hard to best...