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DIED. John H. Michaelis, 73, retired four-star Army general, whose courage in combat earned him the nickname Iron Mike; of a heart attack; in Clayton, Ga. During the Korean conflict, as commander of the 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, Michaelis prepared his men for battle with the famous rallying cry "You're not here to die for your country. You're here to make those so- and-sos die for theirs...
...regiment's colonel in chief was rakishly turned out in a uniform of green overalls, helmet, goggles and Hermes scarf. Just the thing this year if you are Princess Anne spending the day in Warminster, Wiltshire, inspecting the latest weaponry of your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon...
...69th Infantry Division, led by Lieut. Albert Kotzebue. Three hours later another patrol, under Lieut. William D. Robertson, came upon a group of Soviet infantrymen near Torgau. Inching out onto the girders of a wrecked bridge over the Elbe, Robertson embraced Lieut. Alexander Silvashko of the 173rd Rifle Regiment...
...dark green Mercedes bearing an American flag. Both were dressed in camouflage fatigues, and Nicholson carried a set of powerful binoculars and a Nikon camera. They drove about 100 miles north to an area outside the town of Ludwigslust, the site of a training camp for a Soviet tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Division. The Soviets claim that the pair drove onto prohibited territory, ignoring warning signs in Russian and German; Washington insists that they stopped short of the base itself and that there were no signs...
...Black Harvardians who dedicated their lives to the furthering of universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...