Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army which, he admits, is used more for internal security than to defend the country against external threats. "This is a necessity because the police force was nearly wiped out by Amin." As if to punctuate his remarks, a burst of shots fired by a nervous soldier crackled outside Muwanga's suite in Kampala's Nile Mansions Hotel...
...human kindness to make himself understood. The Hostage pulls off a rare dramatic teat: it's "political" without being heavy-handed, a message play that doesn't succumb to self-righteous moralizing. It takes place in a Dublin brothel where I.R.A. officers hold an eighteen-year-old British soldier hostage in reprisal for one of their own men who awaits hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their own particular moral code. Acutely aware of Ireland's volatile political...
Your American Scene article about Colonel Robert Shaw and the black regiment serving in the Civil War [April 6] failed to mention Sergeant William H. Carney. Carney was a black soldier in Shaw's 54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...
...satirically pious story tells how a soldier's breast-pocket Bible stopped the bullet en route to his heart. Ronald Reagan had no Bible in his jacket outside the Washington Hilton several weeks ago, but some of the world idly suspected that he may have been otherwise armored-that in some obscure way he may have been protected by his own remarkable luck...
...Harvard's half of the first. Holy Cross scored again in the third to take a 2-1 advantage. Martelli erased that for good in the Harvard third with his two-run homer. Harvard added single runs in both the fifth and the sixth to ice the win. At Soldier's Field HARVARD HOLY CROSS AB R H BI Gary Quinian, cf 4 1 1 0 Vin Eruzione, 2b 3 0 0 0 Pat O'Reilly, dh 4 0 0 0 Dave Stenhouse, c 3 0 0 2 Jim Vest, lf 4 0 1 0 John Ahern...