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Military officials note that since media outlets started reporting the names and hometowns of departing servicemen, there has been a dramatic and disturbing increase in pornographic calls to the wives and families left behind. "That's why we didn't want the names published in the first place," sighs a Pentagon spokesman...
...April 5, 1986, an 11-lb. bomb killed two U.S. servicemen and injured 230 people in the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin. Ten days later, blaming Libya, President Reagan ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli. Yet investigators were never able to prove conclusively that Libya was behind the attack...
...families of the 58,022 U.S. servicemen and -women who died in Indochina, the war continues as a dull ache, a pain shared by the kin of the millions of Vietnamese killed on both sides. For most other Americans, Vietnam is as much a mystery as it was 25 years ago, when apprehensive Marines in full battle gear first waded onto the beaches near Danang. But the mystery has long been stripped of its innocence and is shrouded instead in guilt and recrimination...
...Secret Servicemen were clapping for number-one seeded Jeremy Fraiberg's opponent, but Fraiberg still couldn't put it together at first. The former Canadian champion lost his first game, 15-6, to Canada's former number two player, Chris Stevens...
...radio, in a broadcast monitored in London by the British Broadcasting Corp., said troops sent to Azerbaijan came under fire four times Monday and overnight, including an armed attack on a convoy of recently demobilized servicemen also carrying women...