Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their deaths are tragic, but no more so than the death of any human being, a soldier killed in a war or a civilian killed by a drunk driver. Nancy Reagan agreed to serve as honorary chairman "to lend legitimacy to the fund." What she and others do not understand is that no celebrity's name or endorsement can ever lend legitimacy to a program that devalues human lives by placing them in an artificial hierarchy...
...where women wear chastity belts and men rarely use the keys, this group of bored, adventure-seekers is getting ready for the big Game--well, actually for some bloodshed. Truth be told, the main force behind the crusade is the mercenary and bloodthirsty Countess Interruptus (Zak Klobucher), who reads Soldier of Fortune and has all the men cowering. The appearance of this motley band is one of the funniest scenes in the show. Dressed like red-white-and-black chess pieces, they march down the aisles singing...
Even after Duvalier had declared a 30-day state of siege and the armed forces put on a heavy display of power, the riots continued. At an early Mass at the St. Jean Bosco church in a poor district of the capital, a soldier shot and wounded the priest for no apparent reason. An enraged congregation spilled into the street and set off more protests. In other parts of town, militiamen fired into the crowds, while rioters smashed car and store windows, looted shops, and constructed roadblocks from tires and burning garbage. By week's end an estimated 26 people...
...blame? Privately, State officials called it a White House fiasco. Publicly, Speakes placed the gaffe firmly at the steps of the State Department. In the end State diplomatically shouldered the blame. "The White House acted on an initial report conveyed by State," said one good soldier. But unhappy officials at Foggy Bottom may have taken some satisfaction from the front-page banner headline splayed across the Friday afternoon edition of the Miami News: DUVALIER HAS FLED HAITI, WHITE HOUSE REPORTS...
...following Amin's fall but withdrew into the bush five years ago, when Obote won an election that was widely regarded as rigged. There, Museveni says, he founded his National Resistance Army with just 27 men and rifles. Since then, his forces have grown to 8,500 well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin and Obote. They are fiercely loyal to their leader. "I fight for Uganda because Museveni is my father," said Sylaz Kazora, a twelve-year-old rebel soldier. "I will...