Word: soldiers
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...three Western countries that occupy West Berlin--the U.S., Britain and France--began conducting tough document checks of Arab diplomats entering the divided city from the East. The heightened security was a response to the April 5 bombing of West Berlin's La Belle disco, in which an American soldier was killed. The U.S. charged that Libyan diplomats based in East Berlin had helped plan the blast. But East Germany's passive acceptance of the new vigilance masked a determination to even the score. Last week East German border guards started demanding that Western diplomats show their passports in order...
...supporting role in The Trip to Bountiful, a film in which the redoubtable Geraldine Page, who won an Oscar for it this spring, does the bravura acting. Page is an old woman who wants to see her hometown before she dies. De Mornay plays the wife of a soldier, who meets Page in a bus station. She sits primly with her handbag in her lap and leaves the big, round gestures to Page. The contrast is expert moviemaking...
...Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship Society, and possibly to a subsequent blast at La Belle discotheque in the same city. The nightclub bombing, which killed a U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman and wounded another 230 people, was one of the terrorist outrages that Ronald Reagan blamed on Libya and cited as justification for the April 15 U.S. raids on Libyan targets. It is conceivable that both Syria and Libya were involved in the discotheque bombing, since some...
...final day of the season, the Harvard baseball team split a double-header with the Big Green from Dartmouth Saturday at Soldier Field...
...their man. On the hustings, the indefatigable former diplomat acted as if he were defending not just himself but an entire generation of Austrians involved in the war. Addressing a cheering crowd of thousands at his final rally, Waldheim asserted, "I have done my duty as a good soldier like all of you," and asked whether his listeners would allow the generation of their grandfathers "to be slighted by an infamous campaign of pure slander...