Word: soldierly
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...became close friends with Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, but otherwise kept to himself. Comrades remember that he talked paranoically about the Federal Government and the threat that it would take guns away from American citizens. In the Gulf War he made two clean kills, once knocking an enemy soldier's head off his shoulders like a cue ball. McVeigh bragged often about that shot. Then, on the second day of a 21-day tryout for the Green Berets, McVeigh quit, and soon left the Army altogether...
...executive who spurred the Marlboro Man into a galloping ad success; of cancer; in Bronxville, New York. A Thoroughbred enthusiast, he founded the Marlboro Cup, a leading stakes race that folded in 1987. DIED. CHAIM HERZOG, 78, urbane, articulate former President of Israel and exemplar of the nation's soldier-statesman tradition; in Tel Aviv. As U.N. ambassador in 1975, Herzog during debate defiantly tore up the infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism. (Years later, it was repealed.) As President, the ex-general worked to broker rifts in coalition Cabinets, isolate some extremists and push for voting reforms. DIED. GERALD...
After two arrests by Iran's ubiquitous secret police for openly complaining about the mullahs, Ebrahami fled, but not to Europe or the U.S. Today she resides in a dusty camp in Iraq, a soldier in one of the most unusual and little known military forces in the world. The National Liberation Army (N.L.A.) of Iran is 30,000 strong, fully armored and ready at any moment to do battle. Some 35% of its soldiers are women, as are 70% of its officers. The troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken...
...HARVARD, 6-4 at Soldier's Field R H E BC 010 012 0-- -- 4 7 2 Harvard...
...lieutenant colonel in the British army during World War II, Herzog was among the first troops at the liberation of the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp. Returning to Israel in the aftermath of the Second World War, Herzog served as a soldier in the nascent Israeli Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence. He went on to become Israel's chief of military intelligence, ambassador to the United Nations and chairman of the Labor Party...