Word: militiaman
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...dissident, a drunk or a child under 18 on the streets of Moscow. All had been swept up for the greater image of Mother Russia. A phalanx of Soviet army soldiers, sitting so close that their shoulders brushed, filled the first row of seats at every Olympic event. A militiaman in gray uniform stood in the middle of every intersection in Moscow, even those miles from Olympic sites. That was the unobtrusive part of the security arrangements. Despite a thorough search in customs, despite the fact that accredited Olympic journalists are due many of the same waivers as athletes under...
Whatever the purpose, the naval bombardments had no discernible effect on the fighting onshore. "They can shell us as much as they like," said one Druze militiaman last week. "They are just using the fleet to mask the shame of having lost." The Pentagon has not produced a "battle damage assessment" disclosing just what targets have been hit by the shells. Lehman insists that American forces track the trajectory of shells and missiles striking the Marines' encampment and other targets in the Beirut area, both visually and by a shore-based electronic apparatus, and that the ships fire only...
...narrow, winding road to the Druze village of Aytat, cars are frantically waved to a stop by a crouching militiaman. He yells to his colleagues hidden in the trees that a vehicle is about to brave the 50-yard stretch exposed to Christian snipers, and they prepare to lay down covering fire if necessary. Then the militiaman shouts, "One, two, three, go!" The traveler slams the gas pedal to the floor. Sometimes the car makes it to the other side unscathed, sometimes...
...radio to avoid shooting at the embassy building "at all cost." Later, however, an Israeli officer took a shot at a U.S. Marine standing guard atop the embassy. The bullet missed, but by merely 2 ft. The Israelis later apologized, saying the officer thought the Marine was a leftist militiaman...
...hated the official line and showed sympathy to me personally," had warned him that Stalin wanted to finish him off "accidentally." The accident actually took place on the anniversary of the October revolution in 1927 when shots aimed at Trotsky's car missed their target and killed a militiaman...