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Archy is not alone either. After the race, he and another sprinter, Frank Dunne become "mates" and head off to hop a freight train to Perth, where the underage Archy hopes to slip into the ranks of the Light Horse cavalry regiment. Dunne, as portrayed by Mel Gibson, provides a good foil for the golden-looking and piously good Archy. Sly but good natured, Dunne is an Irishman with little interest in fighting someone else's war but whom Archie finally cajoles into enlisting with remarks like "You have a greater responsibility to go...you're (big Australian twang...
...very pleasant and, as realized by Director Weir, who proved in Picnic at Hanging Rock that he has a gift for empty-space pictorialism, quite handsome. But after the males have been bonded, they must endure separation (Archy gets a good regiment, Frank finds himself in the infantry), and the audience must endure an extended service comedy as the lads train in Egypt, where there are mule jokes, "feelthy" pictures jokes, and the Pyramids at dawn. At times it seems that one can't get to Gallipoli at all from the point at which Weir starts...
Only half a dozen miles to the rear, in the town of Hof, is the headquarters of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. The Second is at the very forward edge of the U.S. commitment to nato, some 3,800 men assigned to the surveillance of 400 miles of the Iron Curtain. They are screening, among other places, the "Hof Corridor" into upper Bavaria, a less likely battlefield than the north German plain or the Fulda Gap in central Germany but perhaps a tributary invasion route. A feisty Lieut. Colonel from Florence, Ala., Tony Brinkley, 39, thinks the Second could give...
...greet you in these times of griel and sorrow. We want you to know what has taken place in this mining center so that through your mediation the barbarbous cruelty can be divulged . . . The Max Toledo Regiment attacked Caracoles with guns, mortars, tanks and war planes; our husbands defended themselves with stones, sticks and dynamite. By Monday afternoon most of the miners were dead, and the survivors either fled to the hills or houses in Villa Carmen. Army troops pursued them and killed some men in their homes, arrested and tortured others and bayonetted many. They also decapitated the wounded...
Your American Scene article about Colonel Robert Shaw and the black regiment serving in the Civil War [April 6] failed to mention Sergeant William H. Carney. Carney was a black soldier in Shaw's 54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...