Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others were not so fortunate. About 20 of them suffered severe burns or were missing arms or legs. Two victims were so badly burned that they were flown on to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. One Marine, with burns over 95% of his body, died in West Germany, while another died en route. At the U.S. Army Medical Center at Landstuhl, southwest of Frankfurt, where the most badly wounded were taken, the patients said nothing or spoke in monosyllables. As the shock wore off, according to Colonel Richard Swengel, the hospital's chief of neurosurgery...
...French for selling five Super Etendard fighter-bombers to Iraq, with which Iran is at war. President Sayed Ali Khamene'i and Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi have vowed "retribution" against the U.S. and France. The Iranian newspaper Ettela'at published a cartoon depicting Uncle Sam and French President Mitterrand being crushed to death by a huge hand bearing the legend "Lebanese Muslims...
...modern Napoleon," devoid of conscience and simpleminded. By embroiling itself more deeply in the turbulent situation in Lebanon, the U.S. risks becoming a combatant rather than a peacemaker in the endless strife there. "Our forces in Lebanon are now not a deterrent, they are hostages," said Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia...
Nevertheless, Capitol Hill resounded with criticisms of the ill-defined policy for the troops in Lebanon. "Our Marines have been placed in an untenable situation, and I think it is criminal," said conservative Democrat Sam Hall of Texas. "There's a real need to clarify our policy and to explain exactly what the Administration's goals are," said Pennsylvania's Joe McDade, a key Republican on the Appropriations Committee. "A nation cannot wear two hats," said Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, "one being that of a peace-keeping force and the other being that...
...NASA adds Glenn (Ed Harris). Alan Sheperd (Scott Glenn). Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank) and Wally Schirra (Larrie Henriksen). But Yeager remains on the California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just possess all the right stuff as well. And the movie's reluctance to abandon Yeager, even after the rest have headed to Cape Canaveral, reveals Kaufman and Wolfe's sympathies...