Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan a decade ago. Having already withdrawn most of its 115,000-strong invasion force, Moscow has now begun pulling out the last of the estimated 15,000 troops who form the Kabul garrison and defend the corridor north to the Soviet border. By Feb. 15, the last Soviet soldier is scheduled to be gone from Afghanistan, and the Afghan military will bear sole responsibility for the security of the capital as well as the rest of the country...
...Pulitzer prizewinner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginning with Sally and / Prince, in repertory off-Broadway...
...Pulitzer prize winner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginnning with Sally and Prince, in repertory off Broadway...
...recognizably based on the gullies and crests of Le Crete, the bare hills southeast of Siena. And by the end of the quattrocento, in Benvenuto di Giovanni's image of Christ on his way to Calvary, the landscape is real and full of fantastical character: a Roman soldier like an armed Boschian lobster, tormentors pulling and grabbing at Christ, knots of rope, pebbles underfoot -- each bearing its own color and polish, like a cabochon stone...
...edge. On the other hand, geography lends the Soviets a huge advantage. Whatever personnel and armaments Gorbachev withdraws from Europe could readily be returned in a time of crisis. Weinberger even contended that demobilization of Soviet troops is easily reversible: "In the Soviet Union you can turn a soldier into a peasant and back again in rapid order, without public opinion, parliament or editorial back talk...