Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between sea and impassable salt flats where British and German armor fought several World War II battles, tanks and planes rumbled once more. In one battle, claimed Cairo, Egyptian troops knocked out 40 Libyan tanks and disabled 30 other vehicles at the cost of one truck and one wounded soldier. Next day bomb-laden Egyptian jets swept across Libya, inflicting heavy damage on an airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk...
...appointed chief of staff by Bhutto last year over several higher-ranking officers because of his reputation as a nonpolitical "soldier of Islam." But finally Zia decided to take action, alarmed by increasing clashes and the distribution of weapons to Bhutto's supporters. As he told the nation last week, "When the political leaders fail to steer the country out of a crisis, it is an inexcusable sin for the armed forces to sit as silent spectators...
...that prior to the marriage his wife had had nine liaisons and that each affair lasted exactly six months. Madly in love with her, the husband decides to put his wife's devotion to the test. He will try to seduce her in the guise of a Russian soldier-prince...
...World War II. The itinerary is a bit unusual-the Eastern Front in 1943, where the German defenses are crumbling before a Russian onslaught. But within the German bunkers Peckinpah focuses on some old familiar attractions: the maverick sergeant who hates officers and war but is still a helluva soldier (James Coburn), the gutless captain who schemes to ride to glory on the bravery of others (Maximilian Schell), the worldly colonel who copes philosophically with futility up and down the ranks (James Mason). There is also a side excursion to a military hospital with a comely nurse (Senta Berger) whose...
...Peckinpah, however, one good slow-motion shot of a soldier getting killed deserves another, and another, and another. By the time Coburn and his men run across a unit of female Russian sentries - an encounter dripping with prurience, multiple killings and a castration - Peckinpah is clearly indulging himself. Like Coburn's sergeant, who turns down a chance to be invalided out of service in order to return to the front lines. Peckinpah is undone by his attraction to the carnage he professes to loathe...