Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, as a reminder that tension still plagues the region, on three consecutive days last week Israel sent commandos into southern Lebanon. They raided villages, destroyed houses, and seized five villagers as alleged terrorists. Lebanese officials reported that four civilians and one soldier had been killed. Israelis said that the raids were merely "preventive and reconnaissance operations" designed to "confront the terrorists" before they crossed into Israel...
When Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi surrendered in the jungles of Guam in 1972, all Japan was excited by the emergence of "the last soldier" of World War II. Yokoi immediately became a national hero. When the second "last soldier" of World War II, Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, was found in the Philippines last March, Tokyo sent a chartered jet to bring him home. When a third last soldier was captured on the remote Indonesian island of Morotai last month, the Japanese began to show a little embarrassment. How many more aging sons of Nippon can still be fighting for the Emperor...
...thus when a conscripts' union for the army was organized in 1966, it was not considered as outlandish an idea as it might have seemed elsewhere. The union started off by demanding better pay for underpaid conscripts and soon began pushing for better working and living conditions. "A soldier is only a civilian in uniform," says Private Jan Witting, chairman of the Union of Dutch Conscripts, "and he should have all the rights of other citizens under the constitution...
...replace General Aman, the council named Brigadier General Teferi Benti, 53, a career soldier who commanded the Eritrea-based Second Army Division. A hard-liner who can be trusted to follow the orders of Major Mengistu, General Teferi in his first order sent 7,000 troops to reinforce the Second Division, possibly for a showdown with the Eritrean secessionists...
FICTION 1-Centennial, Michener (1 last week) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (4) 3-Something Happened, Heller (2) 4-The Pirate, Robbin$(3) 5-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (5) 6-The Dogs of War, Forsyfh (7) 7-Harlequin, West (9) 8-Jaws, BencMey (6) 9-The Ebony Tower, Fowles 10-The Glory and the Lightning, Caldwell...