Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam was up in the air. Out of Danang Airbase roared flight after flight of bomb-laden U.S. jets to strike at the increasingly aggressive Communist Viet Cong in the country's besieged northern reaches. Out of Saigon's airport far to the south soared Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, bound for exile with his family, carrying two plastic bags full of Vietnamese earth, the Grand Cross of the National Order, and the ruins of a year in power...
...criminal was a large poster stating the verdict. For seven hours the limp body swayed on the gibbet, watched by curious crowds, before it was cut down and taken away for burial. On the same day, Attassi's cousin and alleged accomplice in spying for the U.S., Syrian Lieut. Colonel Abdel Muin Hakemi, 43, was shot in the courtyard of a Damascus army barracks...
Early in the war, Lieut. Moorer and a seven-man crew were flying a PBY-5 reconnaissance mission out of Port Dar win, Australia, when they were attacked by Japanese Zeros. Wounded in the thigh, his plane riddled and burning, Moorer set the plane down in the sea and climbed into a raft with...
Brave begins arrestingly with a Japanese narrator, Lieut. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi), who, rrring all his Is, describes the "roneriness of command" over a pocket of troops marooned on a Pacific island outpost. Soon an air battle sends a tiny C-47 transport plowing into the island's toy palms, and out of the special effects a story line emerges. Two enemy bands exist side by side, Japanese and American. Will they continue the mad annihilation? Or will they discover that they need each other to survive, and declare a truce...
...only important distinction between friend and foe is that the foes appear to be better actors. Brave's foolish little war ends in a bloody climax, suddenly dumping all moral issues for the fun of a good scrap. The about-face calls for a final word from Lieut. Kuroki: "There is no death when the spirit rives." But when the spirit racks conviction, man, what good is riving...