Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listened closely. "He was extremely attentive," recalled one lawmaker. Shalikashvili was aware that banning antipersonnel mines had become an important political issue, both in Congress and internationally. A former frontline soldier, he understood the value of mines, but his experience helping the Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War had shown him how devastating they can be to civilians. As the presidential plane drew nearer to Bosnia, the general well knew that he might soon have to rethink America's land-mine policy...
...written, "I want to have one." Or at least try one out. In 1987 neighbors called the local sheriff when he took on the task of chopping down a neighbor's tree--with 720 rounds of machine-gun fire from a borrowed weapon. Not exactly the kind of Christian soldier one usually finds at a revival meeting...
...HARVARD, 8-7 at Soldier's Field R H E BC 000 110 113 -- 7 12 1 Harvard...
...facility. Lipkin-Shahak said his troops were also under orders to respond to Katyusha attacks. "We told the U.N. we planned to fire," he said. But when the shelling of Qana began, Time Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe heard a U.N commander radio a panicked Fijian soldier that headquarters had asked Israel to stop the bombardment. The firing continued. Only after several minutes of shelling did Israel officially warn the U.N. it was was targeting Qana. Yet in an interview with TIME on Friday, Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, former chief of staff, insisted the troops had been very careful...
WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...