Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement across provincial boundaries in prohibited and that in some provinces possession of the old Cambodian currency, the rien, is punishable by death. According to the New York Times, one high ranking official administering the province of Battambang recently said that "the law now is the law of the soldier...
...honorable discharge. However, under pressure from the gay movement, the military has lately been granting a few honorable discharges when the man's or woman's service record warrants it. The case of Sgt. Leonard Matlovich is the strongest challenge to the armed forces yet made by a homosexual soldier...
Taste for Danger. Some German papers criticized Meeker as a soldier of fortune, but most West Germans hailed him as a hero, a latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, Meeker says he was paid $3,900 for each mission, and money was not the question. His friends and former colleagues believe him. A handsome, mustachioed graduate of Columbia University who speaks six languages, he is described by a U.S. Army official as "one of those kinds of guys"-a Terry-and-the-Pirates type of airman with a taste for danger. Flying assault and rescue missions in Viet...
...Londonderry fracas was just one incident in an anniversary week that left eleven dead and 150 injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck...
...National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), with 33,000 regulars, some of them foreign mercenaries, has the greatest military strength. Based in Zaïre, the group is headed by Holden Roberto, 52, a missionary-educated soldier of fortune, and backed by Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, Roberto's brother-in-law. It is known to be supported by Western business interests, but has obtained most of its arms from China...