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Wherever Brezhnev went, he was accompanied by a platoon of burly security men (some of whom carried submachine guns in briefcases) wearing the obligatory fedoras and leather coats. All together the West Germans contributed 10,000 security police to protect the Soviet leader during his three-day stay...
...fill the gap on the backline, Scalise will move Laura Mayer from midfield to full back and platoon Jenny Rayport and Merry Ann Moore in Mayer's spot. The arrangement worked successfully at the Easterns with the rest of the midfield--Greeley, Cat Ferrante, and Inga Larson, with help from back striker Alicia Carrillo--performing superlatively...
Witness Jenny Rayport and Merry Ann Moore, reserves most of the season, coming off the bench to platoon for injured Ellen Jakovic and playing a large role in defusing a UConn offense that only once this season has been held to less than two goals...
That Soviet military personnel are in Angola and that Moscow is supporting SWAPO has long been known. But this was the first evidence that Soviet advisers were involved with SWAPO down to the platoon level. According to the latest U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviet Union has about 1,000 military and economic advisers in Angola. In addition there are around 400 East Germans (British estimates go as high as 2,500) and up to 20,000 Cuban military personnel...
Jones' cast are rawboned archetypes. Debts to Hemingway and Jack London are duly paid. But a peculiar vein of mysticism transforms the tale. Exerting his territorial imperative, for instance, Slade is aided by a transubstantial raven, a platoon of aged Japanese marines (survivors of a 1940s infiltration of the Aleutian Islands), and the icebound corpses of prehistoric mammoths. But the grand gesture proves as impermanent...