Word: soldierly
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True, a number of these tales unwind in the future, although science has little to do with most of them. The title story portrays Beirut some 30 years hence, still the scene of senseless, sectarian slaughter. A weary soldier conceives a plan for peace that actually begins to work, until it is sabotaged by the United Nations forces assigned to referee the carnage. The reason why is the extremely incisive point of the whole exercise. In The Largest Theme Park in the World, Ballard looks ahead past the planned 1992 economic unification of Europe to 1995, when many...
...clogged with military convoys. On the way from Saudi Arabia we passed trucks carrying bottled water and satellite dishes for telephones; they didn't arrive for days. In Kuwait City the ministers set up their headquarters in the Armed Forces Hospital, and four days later they discovered an Iraqi soldier who had been hiding in a bathroom there...
Mike, who has covered wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Beirut, finds himself treading lightly in Kuwait. British troops disarmed a booby-trapped doorway at an amusement park he went to visit. Later he was detained for four hours by a young Kuwaiti soldier who didn't understand his ID papers. "Things can get a little tense, and you have to watch yourself," he said. "The soldiers at the checkpoints get shot at almost every night. You never go out alone...
...tale to tell. Al-Awadi turns pale when he recalls the story of an Iraqi patrol that spotted some Kuwaiti children playing in the street. "They were told to stop, and all but one did," says al-Awadi. "That one was picked up by the hair by an Iraqi soldier -- he was still holding his soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front of the other kids." Some of Mike's friends had to cut down seven young Kuwaiti girls who had been hanged in a schoolyard after having been raped. There are several hundred women awaiting abortions, says...
...letter to an American soldier...