Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pursuit. Roselli told the Senators how he had taken part in four or five separate attempts to kill Castro in the early '60s, usually by poisoning, confirming the accounts previously reported by TIME and other publications. The testimony of the Mafia's genial old soldier dovetailed with other information gathered by the committee and strengthened the view that at least in the case of Castro, the CIA had tried to instigate what Senator Church bluntly calls murder...
...minutes past midnight on a rainy Wednesday morning in the Mozambican capital of Lourenço Marques, the Portuguese flag was lowered by an unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon...
...other British citizens residing in Uganda, Britain's Labor Government dispatched to Kampala two royal envoys who seemed well-suited to the assignment: Lieut. General Sir Chandos Blair, 56, and retired Major Iain Grahame, 43, who were Amin's military commanders when he was a soldier in the now. disbanded King's African Rifles. When the envoys reached Kampala, they were greeted by a guard of honor and a military band. Amin was off at a rally in honor of African Refugee Day. This was a nice irony, since a sizable number of Africa's refugees...
...professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of Richard Nixon's White House after H.R. Haldeman was forced to quit. In that thankless assignment, Haig played a pivotal role as Nixon left office and, for all practical purposes, was the acting President in Nixon's last anguished days. After helping Gerald Ford settle into office, last October Haig was picked by the new President to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a succession...
...matters any more, not after the Big War," but I didn't and the reason was that a very subtle transformation was working in me, exactly as it was in everyone else I knew in the class. I came back from Harvard thinking of myself as an ex-soldier, a returned veteran of infantry combat, and two years later I had been transformed into something that in reality I was, a sophomore at Harvard. There were times, exam periods for instance, when I could barely remember having endured the war. The war, the most endlessly earnest, realistic experience...