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...recent weeks the I.R.A. has begun hitting back. A former serviceman in the mainly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment was gunned down last month in Londonderry, and a U.D.R. soldier was killed last week in County Tyrone, only hours after the Newry blast. One of those most deeply affected by the carnage is the R.U.C.'s Stewart. Said he of the latest carnage: "I saw grown men hardened to all the bloodshed over the years stand there with tears in their eyes...
...have taken a toll on that good feeling. Korea, Viet Nam and the rat race slowly eclipsed the enthusiasms and certainties of youth. Former enemies became allies; old comrades-in-arms are now adversaries. Robert Lekachman, an economics professor and Army survivor of the Pacific meatgrinder ("I computed my regiment's casualty list. It was 140%"), echoes the book's dominant theme: "It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications...
...soldiers of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, stationed in the strategic Fulda Gap near the border between East and West Germany, life in uniform has never been easy. Most towns in the area are small, provincial and often dull. East German and Soviet border patrols are a constant presence. Above all, the American servicemen at Fulda are aware that the 30-mile gap is a likely invasion route in the event of a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
Such an immense undertaking requires unusual effort, and ABC executives have planned for their 18 days in Los Angeles the way a general staff plans for war, marshaling a regiment of 3,500 employees. Among them: more than 50 on-air reporters and commentators headed by genial Anchorman Jim McKay, 1,500 engineers, and 250 drivers to move 902 cars, trucks and buses. "There are now so many people that I have to park three blocks away from the studio," complains a producer for Los Angeles' KABC-TV, which shares a parking lot with ABC's Olympians...
Samuel Fuller, 71, a film director and screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles, was 31 when he hit Omaha Beach as a corporal with the 3rd Battalion, 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. A small, intense man with a cigar perpetually in his mouth, Fuller returned this month for the first time and felt a little lost. He could not find the pillbox that his unit bypassed on the way to the cliffs beyond the beach. The tall tree on the heights designated before the landing as an assembly point was missing. In a surprised...