Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...invasion, members of the Israeli Defense Forces responded with intensive postmidnight house-to-house searches in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon, Tyre and Nabatiyeh. At least 100 people were arrested. Checkpoints along the coastal highway were the scene of huge traffic jams throughout the week as Israeli soldiers searched all vehicles. Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed at an open window and barked...
...Nicaragua. At the same time, Schaufelberger kept himself well in formed about the changing strength and tactics of the guerrillas. In an interview last week, he predicted that he and his fellow U.S. advisers could soon become choice targets. "Things are going to get nasty," he said. "Shooting a soldier in the line of duty is a lot less risky than shooting a female consular official." By - Pico Iyer...
...memories are layered. Francois Mitterrand could savor echoes from that same Apollo Room. It was there that France's Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the Revolutionary War, was welcomed back to the U.S. in 1824 and toasted as a soldier of liberty...
Medical interest in the phenomenon began on the battlefield, where the devastating effects of chronic stress are unmistakable. During the Civil War, for example, palpitations were so commonplace that they became known as "soldier's heart." During World War I, the crippling anxiety called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that...