Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precincts, tanks and heavy artillery sealed off the sprawling headquarters of the Philippine army. Only three days earlier, military rebels had come close to toppling the President. Now, on National Heroes' Day, she was determined to talk tough. Speaking to a television audience from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the fort's Graveyard of Heroes, she excoriated the mutineers as "traitors and murderers." She declared that troops loyal to her had taught the rebels "their most bitter lesson. And we shall do it again if they want...
...height of the coup attempt, Honasan used his brief moments on television to advocate military revitalization and accuse Aquino of being soft on the guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army. He castigated the government for neglecting the lot of the common soldier, who earns a modest $75 a month, including a daily food allowance of 60 cents. The troops must also endure inadequate equipment, medical supplies and even death benefits while fighting the N.P.A...
...about his wife: He "knew that she never thought of herself merely as Mrs. John Charles Fremont, wife of the first senator from California, wife of the first Republican candidate for President in 1856, now wife of the commander of the Army of the West." Hence a young rebel soldier in a tight spot wonders, "What would his father do? He was a former senator, a former Vice President of the United States, a general in the Confederate Army, a man of the law." In Safire's hands, character analysis boils down to a matter of reeling off resumes...
Raised amid violence, Hagan responded with greater violence. Walk around like a hand grenade with the pin pulled, and people will make room. A soldier since age 13, he is adept at using battlefield logic to justify the daily carnage. "If you're in a war, you just accept that the only thing you can do is stay alive," he says. He impatiently explains the necessity of stealing from the enemy: "It's like I'm coming up in the world, you know. I'm trying to make it, and I need your wallet. That...
Happily, the series has revived itself to welcome Dalton. It opens with the moral dilemma that Full Metal Jacket took nearly two hours to waddle up to: whether a good soldier must kill a pretty young sniper (the unenticing Maryam d'Abo). Then it's off to Vienna, London, Tangier and Afghanistan -- the usual guided tour of In spots and hot spots, with a politically savvy cast of , adversaries. An honorable KGB boss and a duplicitous KGB agent. Afghan freedom fighters who push opium on the side. A renegade arms dealer who may remind you of General Secord's friend...