Word: soldier
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...Jaruzelski went on the radio "as a soldier and the chief of the Polish government," to announce that the nation was under martial law. He later repeated the grim message on national television, dressed in full military uniform with the white Polish eagle prominently displayed behind him. The "growing aggressiveness" of Solidarity's "extremists" in the midst of an acute economic crisis, said Jaruzelski, had forced him to make his repressive moves "with a broken heart, with bitterness." He assured Poles that military rule would be temporary and that the process of "renewal" launched by Solidarity would be resumed once...
...anomalies of the situation in Poland is that the crackdown was a purely military operation. Jaruzelski is the leader of the Polish Communist Party as well as the armed forces and the government, but in his speech to the nation last week he chose to call himself "a soldier and chief of government." There was no mention of the Communist Party. Politburo members were reportedly not told that martial law was being declared until two hours before the troops began to move. The Polish party is deeply demoralized after losing an estimated one-third of its 3 million members during...
...bystander asked a soldier on guard at Warsaw University: "Why are you here?" His reply: "I don't really know. They never told us." The soldier was asked whether he would shoot civilians if so ordered. He shrugged and his face turned...
Moshe Dayan, 66, soldier-statesman who was an architect of Israel's military victories in 1956 and 1967 and also, while Foreign Minister from 1977 to 1979, of the Camp David accords that led to peace with Egypt. As Defense Minister in 1973, he was accused of leaving Israel vulnerable to surprise attack in the October War. Always something of a maverick, Dayan, who lost an eye fighting the Vichy French in Syria in 1941, became a passionate advocate of coexistence between Jew and Arab...
Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, an ebullient soldier who, after leading a 1968 coup, became Panama's de facto strongman, though he served as official chief of government only from 1972 to 1978. A mystery figure of no known ideology but possessing formidable political ability, he employed shrewd negotiating skills and a talent for manipulating volatile nationalist sentiment to bring about the 1977-78 treaties restoring the Panama Canal Zone to his country's sovereignty...