Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pandemonium broke out. As the assassin raced down the center aisle, spectators leaped from their seats and screamed. Security men rushed toward the stage. Park, displaying the cool aplomb of a professional soldier, ducked behind the bulletproof lectern while his bodyguards returned the fire. A 16-year-old high school girl in the audience was killed in the Shootout. Another bullet struck the gunman in the leg; he was wrestled to the floor and carried out of the hall. A third bullet hit Park's charming wife Yook Young Soo, who was seated on the dais directly behind...
...officers went as directed. The Frelimo crept up and surrounded us. I thought we had been tricked, but when they saw we had no arms they threw down their guns and embraced us and called us brothers. Now we are planning a soccer game. -Letter from a Portuguese soldier in Mozambique...
...these freedoms and successes, most Peruvians concede, Velasco certainly deserves a measure of credit. As an enlisted soldier who worked his way up through the ranks, he seems never to have forgotten his own humble origins (his father was a small shopkeeper), and his concern for Peru's poor seems genuine. But since coming to office in the coup that overthrew the constitutional government of Fernando Belaunde Terry in 1968, Velasco has become increasingly entranced with defending his power. Says one diplomat: "He has a will of steel, he understands people, and he is ruthless...
...keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply. The star is Joe Don Baker, a sort of upright Francis the Talking Mule, who appeared in Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields with a two-by-four or hurling people through skylights. He performs all these feats with a great deal of gusto, but no finesse. He is fortunately not called upon to perform acupuncture, or to receive...
...Jewish suffering is occasioned by the highest motives, it is a disaster as a political act. Whether she means for this to happen is irrelevant. She does not understand the situation well enough to know that the point at which she ends, the suffering of the shell-shocked Israeli soldier, is precisely the point at which she should have begun. The task is not to describe how this soldier suffers--rather it is to determine why. In failing to perceive this, she has not just failed her audience, but has dealt a serious blow to her own political credibility...