Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dying is the only way to protect his country. But millions of men, far less favored than Powers, have died when they had to die to maintain their duty. An intelligence officer has no more immunity from death, when death is required of him, than any exhausted infantryman...
...Chichester disappeared. Cyprus' independence party noticeably warmed. When 1,600 Greek and Turkish soldiers debarked from their homelands to stand guard duty over the infant republic alongside Cyprus' own future army, one Turkish centenarian fell on a startled Turkish infantryman's neck, blubbered that he had not set eyes on a Turkish uniform since the last Ottoman garrison sailed away in 1878. For Greek Cypriots, the day was made when a plane from Athens landed 21 EOKA terrorists-freedom fighters to the Cypriots-whom the British had exiled 17 months...