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...most fateful decision Bob Dole ever made, like so many that would follow, he made all alone. He found himself on an April day on a hillside in Italy, trying to lead a platoon that was pinned down by German gunners and surrounded by land mines called Bouncing Betties. When Dole saw his radioman go down, he crawled out of his foxhole to retrieve him; the soldier he was trying to save was already dead, and by the time the firing stopped, Dole very nearly...
...such "normal duties" Lugar has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, charged with crimes against humanity. Dozens of witnesses say he committed terrible acts as platoon leader of a Serbian paramilitary unit known as the Gray Wolves. Yet today Lugar is free, if not living particularly well, back home in Kragujevac, a grimy industrial city 60 miles southeast of Belgrade...
...Tuzla one morning, the 3rd Platoon of Bravo Company conducts its first patrol away from one of the 325th Airborne Combat Team's outposts. Smolje, 5, thumps the flak jacket of Sergeant Brian Hutchens, chatters excitedly and touches the M-16 rifle while trying to mouth the sound of gunfire. The boy follows the troops, in their Kevlar body armor and laden with ammunition, over the rugged, icy landscape. The soldiers walk in a tactical road march, staggered on either side of the trail and leaving 10 meters between each...
Opinion polls show that Lebed leads the platoon in the presidential race. He is a winning campaigner. When asked by a reporter in the provincial city of Tula whether he had the makings of a tyrant, Lebed described himself as "the very personification of compromise," pointing to his peacemaking role in the war-torn Trans-Dniestr region. A female fan asked him to "smile more often," and he plaintively replied, "What can I do if I was born with this face...
Stone typically bites and claws at his subjects, then spits out phantasmagoric movie melodrama--terrific stuff like Platoon and JFK. This time he's almost mellow. The script, which he wrote with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, argues that Nixon had a dark role in anti-Castro mischief; the Cuba connection keeps echoing. The movie also nails him for the Cambodian bombing that set in motion the destruction of a beautiful country. Oddly, Stone doesn't find Nixon guilty of starting the Vietnam War or killing John Kennedy. He does pock the film with right-wing poobahs who anticipate...