Word: paratrooper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apology for a commando raid led by Sharon, then only 25, that killed scores of innocent Jordanians. Ben-Gurion castigated Sharon for "his weakness of not telling the truth." A few years later, Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, considered court-martialing Sharon for defying orders and staging a paratroop maneuver during the 1956 Sinai campaign that cost the lives of dozens of Israeli soldiers...
...Port Stanley. Daily, after a ritual unsheathing of their curved kukris, they flew out in Scout helicopters on search and destroy missions in the southern part of East Falkland known ss ASSOCIATION as Lafonia. The British feared that the stragglers, if not found, could be reinforced by a paratroop drop from the Argentine mainland...
...locale, a bathroom floor, or the effort of overcoming his various hang-ups one cannot be certain); a French doctor who, unlike her other lovers, is dynamite physically, but emotionally selfish; and an Army officer who attempts to assault her when she freezes before her first jump in paratroop training...
...guards and army troops, took on the Iraqi regulars, some of the Iranian heavy artillery began to arrive from as far away as Mashhad near the Soviet border. At week's end Iranian forces appeared to have built up sufficient strength for counterattacks and, according to Tehran, a paratroop drop for the defense of Khorramshahr...
...many as 250,000?military families could be eligible for welfare. Says Colonel Eliot: "When 16% of the Air Force can qualify for food stamps, patriotism doesn't make it as a motivator." Military base commissaries are taking in over $10 million annually in food stamps. Complains a paratroop sergeant in Alaska: "If the Government can give me $71 a month in food stamps, why can't it give it to me in salary...