Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN YITZCHAK, a young Israeli soldier in the army reserves, returned this June from a backpacking weekend in the Galillee mountains; he learned that the captain of his battalion had called several times looking for him. Nine years earlier, his brother had responded to a similar call by rushing immediately to join the embattled Israeli Army to fight in the sudden Yom Kippur war. This time, Yitzchak (not his real name) skipped out on his army duty. The reason, he says: his part-time job and college homework somehow seemed more pressing...
Israeli citizens, and even once-fiercely loyal soldiers like Yitzchak, are losing some of their legendary fervor for national goals. Many, like the young Jewish soldier, have misgivings about what they see as the unduly militaristic policies of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, particularly the recently-concluded war in Lebanon against the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...moved into Warsaw's Victory Square and, for the fifth time since May, swept away the 40-ft. flower cross that serves as a popular memorial to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By the time official military ceremonies began at noon at the adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant lines as "Lead...
WANTED: EXPERTS IN POISONS AND CHEMICAL AGENTS WITH ACCESS TO SAME. That ad, in the paramilitary journals Gung-Ho and Soldier of Fortune, was not submitted by one of the adventurers and mercenaries who commonly read them; it was placed by William Chanslor, former president of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association. His mission: to end the life of his invalid wife painlessly and undetectably. But by last week his scheme had unraveled in a fashion so bizarre that his wife was pleading his innocence in court while prosecutors played tapes of him planning her death. Nonetheless, the jury unhesitatingly convicted...
...turned Susan Chanslor, then 39, from an athletic, vivacious woman into a wheelchair-bound cripple with some brain damage and recurring bouts of headaches and depression. Two years later Chanslor rented a post office box using a fake name and address, then placed his ads in Gung-Ho and Soldier of Fortune. He received several replies, but last fall the energetic attorney came across a promising five-volume set of books titled How to Kill, by John Minnery, a Canadian weapons expert. Chanslor telephoned Minnery, whom he refers to as Dr. Death, to ask about undetectable poisons, and they began...