Word: soldiers
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...Syrian army in the Bekaa Valley and try to keep the coastal region free of the P.L.O. The occupation costs $1.2 million a day, but there is a human toll as well. Since the Israeli army withdrew from the Beirut area to Lebanon's Awali River last September, 55 soldiers have been killed and 436 wounded in terrorist attacks. Most of the violence is caused by the Shi'ite Muslims, who make up more than half of the almost 1 million population in southern Lebanon and deeply resent the continuing Israeli presence. Assaults have declined in the past month...
DIED. Yigael Yadin, 67, Israel's premier archaeologist and the epitome of that nation's citizen-soldier-politician tradition, who twice set aside his passion for the past, first to become a hero of the 1948 war of independence and Israeli chief of staff from 1949 to '52, later to serve as Deputy Prime Minister under Menachem Begin from 1977 to '81; of a heart attack; in Hadera, Israel. As operations chief...
...conversation described the Soviet system as "Mickey Mouse," insisted that he had not gone out of his way to "call them names." He added: "I don't think that I've said anything that was as fiery as them referring to the funeral service for the Unknown Soldier as a 'militaristic orgy.' If we're going to talk about comparisons of rhetoric, they've topped me in spades...
...toasts Chinese leaders in the Great Hall of the People. He mourns at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He chokes up on the D-day beaches of Normandy...
After the speech, the President and his wife gamely descended into a German bunker, then flew to the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. Walking alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier, the First Lady placed some flowers; later she laid a spray of carnations and blue irises at the tombstone of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of his presidential namesake, who landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division and died of a heart attack one month later...