Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest ironies of the war unfolded only last week, when Henry Kissinger appeared before the Senate Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs. Not only is Kissinger back in the news--his grumpy, arrogant mug at the top of The New York Times--but it was a soldier from Vietnam who ordered him there...
Although the U.N. Security Council has approved the use of force to protect aid shipments to Bosnia-Herzegovina, no one has yet figured out precisely how to do it. U.N. forces in Sarajevo are caught in the middle -- a Ukrainian soldier was killed by a sniper last week -- and the major powers are reluctant to let their troops get involved...
This gloomy and roughly powerful novel is not a politically correct sermon on cultural diversity. There are no heroes of tolerance here, native or otherwise, although Vollmann grudgingly admires Samuel de Champlain, the stodgy soldier who founded Quebec. French lay explorers craved beaver pelts. The priestly black gowns wore hair shirts and spiked girdles in self- mortification, and lusted to harvest souls. They strove to break down native sexual and religious customs, but, as Vollmann tells it, were more tolerant of the Indians' prolonged and joyous ritual torture of captured enemies. Tribes sold their souls (literally) as dearly as possible...
...encounters with real or suspected militants, the army takes no chances. Last February it removed a safety catch from regulations by giving soldiers the authority to open fire in a wider range of circumstances. As before, a soldier is permitted to shoot in two situations: if his life is in danger or if a fleeing suspect does not respond to a warning to stop. But under the new rules, the definition of a life-threatening situation has been expanded and the amount of warning that must be given to absconders has been reduced...
...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Soldier of Fortune magazine will have to pay $4.37 million in compensatory damages to Michael and Ian Braun. Their father, a businessman, was murdered in a contract killing set in motion by a 1985 classified ad headed GUN FOR HIRE and offering the "special skills" of a "professional mercenary." Two other businessmen, the advertiser, Richard Michael Savage, and an associate of his, were convicted of conspiracy in the murder. Soldier of Fortune, the court ruled, was negligent in publishing an ad that clearly indicated...