Word: corpsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection of medical talent that accumulated there, two hours driving from the nearest settlement, was a testament to the size of the American health care establishment. Within 45 minutes, the accident victims had been looked over by two doctors and two nurses, bandaged by a service corpsman and given helpful advice by an Eagle Scout with advanced first aid training. An hour later the ambulances and police arrived...
...retrospect." For ten years now the productive Theroux has been transforming the unbearable flesh encountered during his wide travels into pleasurable pages. His eight novels include Girls at Play, Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack, whose settings and atmospheres were drawn from the author's years as a Peace Corpsman in Africa and a teacher in Malaysia...
...article appeared last May in London's Time Out, a trendy counterculture weekly, and the British government was apparently not amused. Last month Scotland Yard arrested two Time Out reporters, Crispin Aubrey, 31, and Duncan Campbell, 24, as well as a former British army signal corpsman, John Berry, 33, for violating the 66-year-old Official Secrets Act. The arrests might have drawn only the usual left-wing cries of protest if the government had not two weeks earlier completed deportation hearings against another journalist, American-born Mark Hosenball, 25, a former Time Out reporter now on the staff...
From the beginning, the Claustre affair was one of the more bizarre, bungled diplomatic efforts in French history. Claustre was captured in the spring of 1974 while exploring pre-Islamic tombs with a young French coopérant -roughly the equivalent of a U.S. Peace Corpsman-and a West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named...
Others are moving to the forefront. This year in North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor James B. Hunt, 39, a former Peace Corpsman who became head of the state's Young Democratic organization, is favored to replace Republican Incumbent James Holshouser (who is prohibited by law from succeeding himself). In Tennessee, former Democratic State Chairman James R. Sasser, 39, who has a mop of hair and a smile reminiscent of John F. Kennedy, is running an energetic campaign for the U.S. Senate. Says he: "If I take a day off, I just get restless and run out of the house to find...