Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boundary is no more than a hundred yards away in most places, marked by three strands of barbed wire clinging to rotting posts hidden in chest-high grass. At a point where the road elbows its way out of forested hills and runs through open country, a Honduran soldier on patrol warns, "The Sandinistas will shoot at anybody." No wonder. Thousands of U.S.-backed contras have infiltrated that barbed-wire border to set up a base camp nearly 20 miles inside Nicaragua...
...logistical problems, however, were enormous. I wasn't even a soldier in the Red Army, let alone an important general who could take credit for a major victory. Getting a commission would take a long time, maybe even years...
These could be the lyrics to the life of Patti Rasnick (Joan Jett), a guerrilla soldier in the rock revolution. Patti's rifle is a Gibson guitar; her army is a Cleveland band she fronts called the Barbusters; and her enemy is Mom (Gena Rowlands), who drives Patti bats with her meddling, consuming love. Patti seceded from the family when she had a son out of wedlock. "I wanted something she had no part of," Patti tells her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Joe, the Barbusters' lead guitarist, is peacemaker in the Rasnick war, but sometimes he feels like...
...coup attempts go, last week's bungled takeover in Manila was a pretty tame affair. Few were hurt, and only one rebel soldier was killed. Despite some rock throwing and a few blasts of tear gas, the 61-hour drama often seemed more like a soap opera than a mutiny. Still, President Corazon Aquino did not need even a small rebellion on the eve of a critical vote on her proposed new constitution. She could not be happy that, for the second time in two months, she had to be rescued by her divided military. Nor could she be sanguine...
...heart of the military complaints is a sense that Aquino will bend more easily to meet the needs of the Communist guerrillas than she will to maintain the loyalty of her troops. It is now common to hear soldiers gripe that the Communist insurgents have got a "free ride" in the media since the cease-fire began last December. Another standard beef: guerrillas are not held accountable for human-rights abuses, but soldiers are. Asks one soldier: "If Aquino can be soft on the ((Communist)) rebels and offer them amnesty, why can't she treat the rebel soldiers...