Word: soldier
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...Good Soldier Schweiker...
When the 1982 budget for HHS was slashed by more than $3 billion, Good Soldier Schweiker hardly raised a yelp. But he has not yet come forward with proposals for less expensive ways to deliver the social services he once fought for as a Senator, or to contain health-care costs through greater competition and coordination. Moreover, he has joined the fight against programs like family planning, which the Administration opposed primarily on ideological, rather than budgetary grounds...
...Haig is no dove. He has the soldier's instinct to deal from strength. But he wants to talk with the Soviets about arms limitations, to heed the protests in Europe and across the U.S. against nuclear weapons, to keep our foreign-aid programs strong, to use words instead of bullets. Haig's mission to Mexico City last week, yet another maneuver in the cause of restraint, was designed to ease fears of American military intervention in the Caribbean, and to try to get Mexico to help ease the crises in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Secretary...
...bomb from his plane soon tore into the bowels of the West Virginia. On the eastern edge of Oahu, at Bellows Field, Sub-Lieut. Iyozoh Fujita, flying a Zero fighter from the Japanese carrier Soryu on his first combat mission, saw his flight commander shot down by an enraged soldier furiously firing a Browning automatic rifle. Both Fujita and Abe survived the war. Abe, now 69, became a rear admiral in Japan's postwar Maritime Self-Defense Force; Fujita, now 64, was a pilot for Japan Air Lines until his retirement in 1977, making regular runs in Boeing...
Barcarola is dedicated to the late Paul Dessau, a German composer who shared Henze's Marxism. Henze's political beliefs stem from his upbringing in Nazi Germany and his experiences as a soldier in World War II, a background, he says, that "was sufficient to create a politically minded person. Either that or a monk." Explains Henze: "Politics has become so much a part of my thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted...