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Duarte also deserves good grades for his handling of the military. He has taken his role as commander in chief seriously, visiting nearly all of the country's 18 major barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun by guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo...
...there were the sudden gestures of respect for the enemy that occasionally graced the killing. Edwin Schmieger, a former parachutist with the German 3rd Parachute Division, is one of 100 or so German veterans who chose to settle in Normandy after the war, mainly because the Soviet army had overrun their former homes in Poland and Germany. A skilled carpenter who restores old furniture, Schmieger recalls coming under fire from three American tanks. "One of my comrades was wounded in both legs," recounted Schmieger, "and without thinking I left my cover to put a tourniquet on his wounds. The American...
...tangled skein of allegiances that gives Lebanon its bewildering complexity was many centuries in the making. It is a land that through most of its history has been overrun and ruled by outsiders, from Egyptian viceroys and Babylonian governors to Ottoman mutessarifs and French commissioners. In ancient times, it was inhabited by the Phoenicians, who took their name from the purple dye they plied around the Mediterranean. Later it became part of that smaller region known as the Holy Land. The cedars of Lebanon were celebrated by the Psalmists, and its mountains provided inspiration for religious mystics...
...mistake, you can hear the Defense department bureaucrats straggling to apologize. Just misplaced that little pinky on the calculator. The litany of excuses for this error are surely being prepared by Defense Department flaks at this very moment. And in a normal period eg-regious as the potential cost overrun is, we would be satisfied with the stingiest of mea culpas...
...authorized holiday leaves and 200 other soldiers were absent on patrol, the guerrillas struck. In the early hours of the morning, they set off a mortar barrage, scoring direct hits on barracks where government soldiers were sleeping. Some army troops scattered in panic. Within eight hours, the guerrillas had overrun the chain-link fence and barbed-wire perimeter, but they abandoned the fort at nightfall. Several days later, the rebels reportedly released 158 captured soldiers and civilians. Salvadoran military officials claimed that 100 government troops were killed in the fighting, but hospital officials and villagers who witnessed a mass burial...