Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Triumphant junior officers wanted to name Hebreux the new President of Haiti, but the young medic reportedly became agitated and declared that he was not prepared for the post. Only then was Avril, 51, a senior Presidential Guardsman and a longtime associate of the Duvaliers who had nonetheless helped oust Baby Doc, selected to lead the country...
...Senator followed both instructions faithfully, perhaps too faithfully. Each time Quayle sat down before the cameras, he dropped another factlet about the efforts of his family and friends to ease his way into the National Guard. At times Quayle spoke with such enthusiasm about his ambition to be a Guardsman that one almost got the impression that it was a higher calling than the vice presidency...
...Veteran Major Craig Mays, 41, a burly A-10 pilot with blond hair and a Kennedyesque smile. "I'm going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong Harbor, hoping to lure out MiGs. Now owner of two evangelical Christian bookstores in Atlanta, Haynes still finds flying magical. "We take a brick, put a little sheet metal...
...Ulsterman, passed through a security checkpoint just outside the town of Aughnacloy in Northern Ireland last week. Shots rang out from a tower manned by British soldiers and McAnspie crumpled to the ground, fatally wounded. The British army promptly took into custody the man who fired the gun, Grenadier Guardsman David Jonathan Holden, 18. Holden claimed he had accidentally set off his weapon and that McAnespie was killed by a ricocheting bullet...
...shantytown, known as Fortaleza, teems with an ever growing population of abandoned women and children. Some are widows, like the one who two months ago, unable to provide enough food, poisoned her children, then herself. Others tell of husbands, brothers and fathers who offended a soldier or national guardsman. Sometimes the bodies were found; more often they were consigned to the black hole of statistics known as "the disappeared...