Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, near a battered fort, we spied the only flag we had seen all day, a shredded, blue and white Star of David. Commanding the fort was a young lieutenant from Tel Aviv. Leaning against a bunker, he reflected bitterly: "Back home they call this 'the Yom Kippur war' or 'the war of the Day of Judgment.' I call it 'the meaningless war.' There's no point to it. We are fighting it because the Arabs started it. We are just pounding each other to hell, causing a lot of casualties, breaking each...
...reduced that weekend by Yom Kippur passes. "My God," said a radioman in one bunker reporting back to Israel's secondary defenses ten miles to the rear, "it's like the Chinese coming across." Another forward observer reported that "hundreds, thousands of Egyptians are swimming toward our fort. We need reinforcements quickly...
...loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley, the My Lai triggerman (still confined to base at Fort Benning) comes across as a very shrewd robot, cynically using the truth to embarrass the Army and deflect his own guilt...
...Madison, Wis. on Lake Mendota $28,500 for 85 front feet Minneapolis, southern suburbs $11,000-$13,000 per ½ acre Kansas City, raw land in Platt County, north of Kansas City $1,500-$2,500 per acre Providence, R.I., suburb of Glocester $2,500-$4000 per acre Dallas-Fort Worth Airport vicinity $25,000 per acre Houston, raw industrial land $26,500 per acre
Perdue's tour in the Marines led him to become increasingly involved in minority rights in the armed forces. He served as VVAW coordinator for 900 members in metropolitan Fort Lauderdale, Fla, from July 1971 through August...