Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the ritual wreath laying at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe-attended by such fellow Socialists as former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Greek Actress and Parliamentarian Melina Mercouri-Mitterrand proceeded to the Left Bank and a new ceremony of his own: a pilgrimage to the Panthéon that provided a television spectacular that was even better orchestrated than Giscard's farewell...
President Reagan has lifted the grain embargo on the Soviet Union [May 4]. Never let it be said that America allowed a single Soviet soldier in Afghanistan to go hungry, or deprived the Soviet army on the Polish border of its daily bread...
...served to aggravate a decline in discipline, which bothers army commanders. Israeli troops have always been informal, but at the core they were tough and ready to fight. The new disregard of discipline has prompted the I.D.F. to emphasize symbols of obedience. Signs have gone up on military bases: SOLDIER, IMPROVE YOUR APPEARANCE...
Filed from Northern Ireland, the column had the vivid detail and emotional wallop that readers of the New York Daily News had come to expect from Michael Daly. Titled "On the Streets of Belfast, the Children's War," it described how British soldiers had wounded a 15-year-old boy when they used real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least...
...ailing New York newspaper. Daly was summoned to New York and questioned for more than three hours on Friday by News Editor Michael O'Neill and others. He insisted that his story was "essentially correct," according to O'Neill, but admitted using a false name for the soldier, a practice he said he had followed numerous times in the past. When Daly could not substantiate his story, O'Neill, the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, asked for his resignation. Daly complied, "with the hope I will save this newspaper from any further embarrassment." Said...