Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, savagely, street violence and rioting erupted last week throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Arab youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who responded with rifle fire and tear gas. Roadways were blocked by burning tires and other rubble. City streets emptied, except for the occasional patrol of red-bereted Israeli paratroopers. As the turmoil spread, seven Arabs and one Israeli soldier were killed, dozens of Arabs and soldiers were injured, and hundreds were arrested. The demonstrations were the fiercest since the Israelis occupied the area 15 years ago during the Six-Day War, and the stakes...
...kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty bourgeois character, but rather as a simple, choice-less exposure to death. They believe in their captain, not in Hitler...
...been replaced by heartbreak, anger, resentment and confusion. I also carried with me an overwhelming love and respect for the young men who, like me, carried on the best they could in the most miserable physical and psychological situations. If there is one monument [Feb. 22] to one soldier on the face of this, earth, there must be one for the G.I.s of Viet Nam, who gave as much as any who fought in earlier conflicts and, so far, have been rewarded only with medals of contempt and disinterest...
...student and granted him asylum. Then there were two Nicaraguan air force defectors who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El Salvador but by week's end were judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there was a young Nicaraguan soldier who was produced by the State Department but then promptly repudiated his previous statements about being trained in Cuba and Ethiopia and having been sent into El Salvador by his government. The U.S. did have solid evidence of a major military buildup in Nicaragua, and former high national security officials were...
...slide presentation did provide unmistakable evidence of a military buildup that Nicaragua's leaders have hitherto minimized. Nonetheless, Sandinista leaders were quick to dispute many of the charges. "There is not a single foreign soldier in Nicaragua," insisted Sergio Ramirez, a member of the country's three-man ruling junta. "How could we hide 2,000 Cuban soldiers in a country this size?" Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock, who was in the U.S. for his own publicity offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually...