Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earthy Soldier. The same gift for deftness and diplomacy, still widely unsuspected, emerged in his dealings with South Vietnamese officers. Assigned in 1967 as deputy to General William Westmoreland, Abrams courted top Saigon officers, accepting slights with patience and devouring a Vietnamese meal intended to make him gag-chicken heads, goat meat and paddy...
FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week) 2-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 3-Watership Down, Adams (3) 4-Jaws, Benchley(4) 5-Cashelmara, Howatch (5) 6-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt(8) 7-The War Between the Tates, Lurie 8-Centennial, Michener (9) 9-The Fan Club, Wallace (6) 10-lf Beale Street Could Talk, Baldwin...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carré (1 last week...
Female integration into formerly male units is not easy. As a former battalion commander at Fort Carson, Colo., explains: "A soldier's day doesn't end at 5 p.m. There are assignments like guard duty with a rifle, charge of quarters, and special police handling of burly drunks." Women formerly rose through the ranks only within the WAC. Now they are competing directly with men for promotions. The seeding into various Army branches of senior WAC officers, some of whom have been lieutenant colonels for more than a decade, is especially difficult. Many fear a hostile reception...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1 last week...