Word: soldiers
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General of the Army Dmitri Yazov, 63, who leapfrogged over twelve more senior members of the Soviet high command to become the new Defense Minister, made his debut at a two-day conference in Moscow of high-ranking Warsaw Pact officers. A career soldier with combat experience in World War II, Yazov is believed to have made a favorable impression on Gorbachev during the Soviet leader's visit last summer to Vladivostok, where the general was based as commander of the U.S.S.R.'s far eastern military district. Yazov was summoned to Moscow last February and given the Defense Ministry...
...honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored the evidence it did not invent implicating Khadaffy in the bombing of a West German disco the year before which led to the death of an American soldier and the U.S. bombing of Tripoli...
...surely no son should be punished--or even refused an honor--for the sins of his father. So let us catalogue the sins of the son and compare them with his virtues. Richard von Weizsacker was certainly no conscientious objector to Nazi aggression. He was a soldier who participated in the brutal invasion of Poland which commenced both World War II and Hitler's genocidal program. After the war, he helped his father lie to the Neurenberg tribunal by denying that he knew what was going on at Auschwitz. He helped his father construct a perjurious and unsuccessful defense which...
...work to a minority-owned enterprise. The enterprise it chose was Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., a firm set up by New York State Senator Joseph Galiber, who is black, and William (Billy the Butcher) Masselli, who has been identified by the FBI as a Mafia soldier. Merola charged that Jo-Pel was a mere front and that Schiavone had siphoned cash out of the contract by leasing Jo-Pel heavy equipment and receiving rental fees. Donovan, Schiavone and the other defendants contended that Jo-Pel was a legitimate firm, the leasing deal had been proper and, since...
While McFarlane came across as a good soldier, his earnest admissions did not wash with Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel. "I appreciate your willingness to shoulder great responsibility," Hamilton told the witness. "But I cannot accept that answer . . . You cannot, it seems to me, accept responsibility for mistakes, as admirable as that may be, and thereby absolve the President of responsibility." Outside the hearings, & Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine was more colorful. "McFarlane's testimony of the President's personal involvement," he said, "does tend to indicate that the water is lapping at the walls...