Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WONDERFUL THING about Desert Storm though, was that Diane and I, as an American soldier and spouse, were not alone in receiving such support. We, the Allies, had superior technology and firepower in this...
Described by Perez de Cuellar as "more of a soldier than a diplomat," Picco was a natural choice for the dangerous assignment. The Italian-born Picco, 43, first worked for Perez de Cuellar in Cyprus with the U.N. ! peacekeeping forces in the 1970s. He joined the Secretary-General's personal staff in 1982, and was part of the team that negotiated the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Once pragmatists in Iran's government concluded that the hostage crisis had to be resolved, the first man they turned to was Picco. They trusted him because of his evenhanded role as head...
While America's hostage nightmare has ended, Picco's mission is incomplete. Securing the return of the two remaining German hostages and the Israeli soldier will be ticklish, in part because the abductors are afraid they will be liquidated by vengeful Western governments or abandoned by their former Iranian patrons. That fear could delay Perez de Cuellar's dream of bringing the entire hostage saga to a close -- and send Picco back into the Bekaa Valley...
...December one German soldier was writing despairing entries into his diary. Dec. 5: "Heavy snowfall. My toes are frostbitten. Gnawing pain in my stomach . . . There is very little food. All is lost. Constant bickering. Everybody's nerves are on edge." Dec. 12: "O God, help me return home safe and sound! God Almighty, put an end to all this torture!" With rations slashed in December, army horses were slaughtered and cooked...
...Russia at War, the British journalist Alexander Werth recalls one sight in devastated Stalingrad at the time of the German capitulation: horse skeletons with uneaten bits of meat clinging to them; an enormous frozen cesspool; and, creeping into a cellar, the figure of a German soldier, his face a "mixture of suffering and idiot-like incomprehension." "The man," recalled Werth, "was perhaps already dying. In that basement into which he slunk there were still 200 Germans -- dying of hunger and frostbite. 'We haven't had time to deal with them yet,' one of the Russians said. 'They'll be taken...