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Last week Humberto Ortega had other matters to deal with. He announced that Sandinista infantrymen had shot down a single-engine Cessna plane and captured $ an American "mercenary," James Denby, 57, a pilot who divides his time between a corn and soybean farm in Carlinville, Ill., and a ranch in Costa Rica. Two days before the incident, Denby had requested permission to fly over Nicaragua to reach Costa Rica. The Sandinistas charged that Denby was on an espionage mission for the contras. But it appeared that if it came down to comparing the propaganda value of a Denby with that...
There is a dogged quality to this gentle description, an absolute determination not to let go of the reader before he is made to understand what these infantrymen are enduring. Pyle himself, like the soldiers he covered, was new to war, and only recently rid of the romantic, patriotic belligerence of the Stateside noncombatant. His writing at this period sometimes lapsed into a chatty journalese. A few months before, in Algeria, sounding like a reporter quoting a football coach, he had written cheerily of wounded soldiers who were "busting to get back into the fray again." This was the conventional...
...long defensive line and capturing Nacfa. Ethiopian infantry, backed by Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks, tried to blast its way onto the heights commanded by the rebels. One night Ethiopian fighter-bombers pounded rebel positions near Nacfa for five hours with bombs, rockets and napalm. Ethiopian infantrymen, backed by more than a dozen tanks, managed to overrun a rebel position. Before the Ethiopians could move on Nacfa, though, rebel reinforcements moved in from the flanks and drove the Ethiopians back in a long night of fighting...
...effort to extinguish the fire, Blackwell called the mayor, who told him firemen were being held off out of fear they would be shot at by Move members. Fire Commissioner William Richmond at first accepted responsibility for holding his men off for safety's sake ("They are firemen, not infantrymen"), but Sambor later admitted that they delayed in the hope that the fire would destroy the bunker...
...first encounter, on April 25, 1945, took place at Strehla, 18 miles upstream from Torgau; it involved a U.S. reconnaissance team of the 69th Infantry Division, led by Lieut. Albert Kotzebue. Three hours later another patrol, under Lieut. William D. Robertson, came upon a group of Soviet infantrymen near Torgau. Inching out onto the girders of a wrecked bridge over the Elbe, Robertson embraced Lieut. Alexander Silvashko of the 173rd Rifle Regiment...