Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wiesel said that the first thing he saw upon being liberated was a Black soldier weeping," he added...
Paul Parks, who is Black, participated in the liberation of Dachau as a soldier and is now chair of the Boston School Committee, and Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel were also at the press conference...
...from active duty. The President gave Secretary of Defense Les Aspin a July 15 deadline to draft an Executive Order formally lifting the ban and spelling out a detailed policy for doing so. Clinton pledged to enforce "rigorous standards regarding sexual conduct" that presumably would not allow a gay soldier to solicit sex from a straight...
...agreed to the timetable, but there was no guarantee that the warring factions would put aside their ethnic hatred long enough to vote. Both the government and the Khmer Rouge have been accused of killing off enemies in a series of massacres. According to U.N. peacekeepers, a Khmer Rouge soldier confessed that he and other guerrillas slaughtered a group of 15 Vietnamese living in Cambodia...
...woods outside Belfast, a black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything...