Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, PRESIDENT-ELECT...
...professor of history at the University of New Orleans and an editor of Eisenhower's papers, Ambrose is a careful, thorough critic of Ike as citizen, soldier and President. But he is also something of a fan, beguiled by a figure who was "decisive, well disciplined, courageous, dedicated ... intensely curious about people and places, often refreshingly naive, fun-loving-in short a wonderful man to know or be around...
...from differences between G.I.s and West German peace activists that cannot be easily bridged. "When 100,000 people come out to protest against what you are doing, it does not exactly make you feel wanted or good about yourself," says a young U.S. infantryman. Observes Ed Reavis, a former soldier who now reports for the U.S. armed forces' newspaper Stars and Stripes: "The [U.S.] military are by and large conservative. They see the peace activists as their enemies, as Communists and troublemakers...
Then comes Chen Yun, 78, a shy man who was elected to the Politburo as far back as the Long March in 1934. Once a soldier, he later served as Chairman of the State Financial and Economic Commission and has become China's leading economic thinker, the man who insists that China's people need consumer goods and the state must loosen its controls to provide them. This sets him against Li Xiannian, who thinks that China must focus on infrastructure and capital goods...
Dawkins' decision appeared to be largely a matter of timing. While recuperating from back surgery last year, Dawkins saw his future parade before him. "With weeks to look at the ceiling," he says, "you take a more reflective view. Even as much as I enjoyed life as a soldier, I realized there were lots of other parts to life." He would have had to retire from the Army, at his pace, after 35 years of service, which would have made him 56-possibly too old, he felt, to embark fresh on a new line of endeavor but too young...