Word: skirmishes
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...were classified as mere "detainees." It took an act of Congress to change the Pentagon's mind. Contrast that with the medals awarded to Captain Will Rogers III and Lieut. Commander Scott Lustig of the S.S. Vincennes last year. They were cited for their conduct during a skirmish in the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988. The citations did not mention that an Iranian airliner was mistakenly shot down just after the incident, killing 290 civilians...
...skirmish came at a sensitive time for Shamir. Plans are under way for a meeting of Israeli, American and Egyptian foreign ministers to advance Shamir's proposal for elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Prime Minister's ulterior motive in attacking Weizman was to emphasize his determination never to accept any role for the P.L.O...
...player," he says. "He's a kid off a Wheaties box. I wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with his image -- take him to the dark side." So the kid goes off to war and sees a slaughtered Vietnamese family. In the chaos of a skirmish, he kills one of his own men. Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying rants, he abuses his parents, his country and himself. This Ron is not a nice person or even, in his hippie garb, a nice-looking one. Moviegoers...
...Thomas Francis McGuane III that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan...
...latest skirmish erupted last week in San Francisco, as parishioners of St. Francis Lutheran Church voted 46 to 5 to call a lesbian couple as assistant pastors: Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, both graduates of Luther Northwestern seminary in Minnesota. Bishop Lyle Miller refuses to approve them as ministers because they will not commit themselves to sexual abstinence. The congregation, half gay, will have to ordain the women on its own, defying both the ordination rules of the 5.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its policy against "homosexual erotic activity" among ministers...