Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups desire each other, yet are ashamed of their urges, and so they satisfy themselves by convening at a common target. Another theory holds that there are situations where men so seek to prove their masculinity to one another that they will do anything, including murder. An American soldier in Viet Nam described how, for no other reason than that a comrade led the way, he shot to death a girl he had raped. Sex and violence have an eerily close kinship as it is. Rape itself may be a form of murder, the destruction of someone's will...
Nothing could have been that simple, but the people in Washington sure went to the other extreme. There were ridiculous body counts. Charlie Company would take a useless piece of real estate one day, only to hand it back over to the enemy by nightfall. The inept leadership allowed soldiers to lob mortar and shells on their own men. And all during this time, politicians argued about the shape of the table in the Paris "peace" conference. "We're in the jungle with two canteens and two C-rations," one soldier remembers, "and they're arguing about what kind...
Perhaps. But there were other signs last week that the authority of Bignone's government was rapidly eroding. After an appearance before the three-member commission investigating the conduct of the Falklands war, former President Leopoldo Galtieri was accosted by angry hecklers. Shrieked the mother of a soldier who disappeared in the Falklands: "Scoundrel! You'll pay for it!" Shouted another angry bystander: "May God judge you!" Some 10,000 demonstrators marched peacefully amid cries of "Military traitors to the wall!" and ritual burnings of American and British flags...
...hallway through the outdoor portion of its season, the Harvard men's tennis team is still looking for some tough Eastern competition. Since returning from their spring binge through the West, the netmen have downed Navy 9-0, Dartmouth 7-0, and--most recently at Soldier's Field Stadium--Penn State 9-0. And though the easy victories have helped bolster the squad's confidence, the Eastern opposition has not demanded much from the Crimson...
There are, no doubt, a few would-be Green Berets who see ROTC as a chance to play soldier for four years. Most participants, however, are motivated by a genuine sense of patriotic duty. And almost all cadets join at least in part out of financial necessity. The program provides scholarship money and monthly stipends. The University should not require patriotic and needy students to suffer the inconvenience of taking the courses at MIT--or to endure the sense of second-class citizenship that this semi-exile promotes. By accepting ROTC because it offers financial aid, Harvard would...