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...zone half the 7,000 men and 30 tanks allowed under the disengagement agreement, and withdrew artillery and missiles from canal range. To dramatize the move, Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week took foreign newsmen on a tour of the desert, where they observed the withdrawal of one sandchurning platoon of ten tanks...
...January 1967, a platoon of Chinese soldiers staged daily marches to the Soviet border, where they turned, dropped their pants, and aimed their buttocks at the Soviet troops on the other side. How did the Soviet Union discourage this traditional Chinese insult...
Shot in Ditch. The attack started just before 8 a.m. The report states that Galley's 1st Platoon moved through My Lai killing Vietnamese. "Most of the inhabitants who were not killed immediately were rounded up into two groups. The first group, consisting of about 70-80 Vietnamese, was taken to a large ditch east of My Lai and later shot. A second group, consisting of 20-50 Vietnamese, was taken south of the hamlet and shot there on a trail...
...Then, midway through the schedule, just as the experts were beginning to believe in the upstarts, the old guard reasserted itself, and a new set of misfits including Houston and Cleveland battered the betting line with upsets. By last week the N.F.L. was a bookie's nightmare; a platoon of likely and unlikely teams battled for play-off berths...
...lawyers like Mason, Hawkins and Preston routinely best prosecutors and private attorneys alike by dint of imaginative research and brilliant courtroom tactics. Without the aid of the TV scriptwriters, though, a lone practitioner or a small firm is rarely a match for a large adversary backed by a platoon of associates in the firm and a big reference library. Nor can small outfits usually afford the high annual fees electronics firms charge for use of computers that can search their prodigious memories in seconds and spew out legal precedents...