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...British soldiers have been killed, vs. 243 members of local police or militia. But lately the ratio has been changing: of 61 people to die violently so far this year, only seven were British army regulars, while 15 were locally recruited police or members of the Ulster Defense Regiment U.D.R.). One reason: the growing policy of "Ulsterization" of peace-keeping chores in Northern Ireland that is replacing British patrols in many areas with R.U.C. police or U.D.R. units...
...First volunteer regiment for Civil...
Capt. Richardson of Cambridge organized the first volunteer regiment to fight for the Stars and Stripes. The Cambridge company left shortly--few of its original members returned...
...heartbreaking," concedes Colonel John Sherman Crow, 43, commander of the U.S. llth Armored (Black Horse) Cavalry Regiment, which is charged with border surveillance in the central sector at Fulda. "But we are forbidden to interfere until someone actually gets across the line. And we must make sure that we don't violate that line on patrol, not with a single footprint, tire track or rotor blade." Crow assigns daily helicopter patrols to fly "the trace," as the border is known, always with specially trained pilots. Ground patrols operate within a few feet of the frontier, occasionally augmented...
Once, after spending only a moment with a new patient, the famed 19th century Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Bell correctly identified him as a noncommissioned officer who had just been discharged from a Highland regiment in Barbados. Bell, the real-life model for Sherlock Holmes, quickly noted the symptoms of elephantiasis, then prevalent in the West Indies. The man's speech was obviously that of a Scot. He had an air of authority, yet Bell concluded that he was not an officer. The reason: he did not remove his hat-a miscue that Bell knew could only have been committed...