Word: soldier
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...point. Rarely has a new Secretary of State moved so swiftly to take control of foreign policy as Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 56-former White House Chief of Staff in the darkest days of Watergate, former NATO commander, soldier-bureaucrat-diplomat whose self-assurance is matched only by his iron will...
...knows what first gave Haig the idea of a military career. Says his sister Regina: "It began when he was four years old. He just one day said he wanted to be a soldier. He had a bugle and he kept it with him all the time, marching around and tooting it; he took it to bed with him the way other kids take a stuffed animal." Haig's mother tried to talk the boy into becoming a lawyer, but, says Regina, "Al never batted an eyelid. He was constant about that one thing: he was going to West...
...Fire works best when it starts to break away from such stereotyped roles and speeches to show the feelings of the people caught between the symbols. Through minor characters and incidental lines Ward manages to give her play some needed depth. The eagerness of a 12-year-old soldier (Stephen Keeler) complements the world-weary cynicism of an old man (played with nice touches of irony by Jeremy Rabinovitz) and the equally cynical pilfering of a surly revolutionary soldier (Brad Blumenthal...
...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...
THERE IS A remarkable scene in the Belgian documentary Revolution or Death, in which a jeep full of El Salvadorean soldiers drives up to an outdoor meeting of peasants. The soldiers hop out of the jeep and at the order of their commanding officer, open fire on the unarmed group of men, women and children. When the gathering has been dispersed, and a number of its participants maimed or murdered, a soldier takes a machine gun out of the jeep and places it in the arms of a dead man. Then the soldiers take pictures...