Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sirens began to wail while all Israel was observing Yom Kippur, the holiest and also the quietest day of the Jewish year. By tradition, tens of thousands of servicemen were home on leave; Israeli Broadcasting had shut down for the day. As crowds of worshipers emerged from synagogues at the end of the five-hour-long morning services of atonement, they found the streets filled with speeding trucks, buses and Jeeps. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called...
...described as "routine." But the destroyer continued to follow the freighter to the limit of Nicaragua's territorial waters, twelve miles from the coast. Even as the Administration proceeded with plans for the military exercises, which will involve 19 naval vessels and as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen at sea and in Honduras, it was displaying increasingly overt interest in finding a diplomatic solution to the Central American dilemma. Last week, after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations...
...goods and services. When it comes to such amenities as air conditioning, ice cubes and even a cup of coffee, Yugoslavia still has a long way to go. One measure of the country's need for hard currency is an almost philanthropic scheme by which U.S. servicemen stationed in Europe are invited to vacation at any of six Yugoslav army resorts; they have first-class accommodations, swimming pools, saunas and good restaurants...
...waste. Private businesses can do it for about $1 a check, but it costs the Army $4.20. The Grace commission also cites the operation of unnecessary military bases and the domestic proliferation of subsidized commissaries (six in Washington, B.C., alone) that were originally intended to provide shopping facilities for servicemen in remote outposts...
...your article on the death of U.S. Adviser Albert Schaufelberger III in San Salvador, you say that U.S. officials call servicemen in El Salvador trainers because the word advisers evokes memories of Viet Nam. Actions speak louder than words, however. U.S. officials will have to do more than change the terminology to hide the similarities...