Word: soldiers
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...retro, was the general feeling, and possibly subject to unflattering misconstruals. Dole had used a contemporary writer whose best-known book, A Soldier of the Great War, featured much manly adventure, so Clinton could match him with Raymond Chandler's offering...
After reading Gerald Posner's piece, based on his book Citizen Perot [NATION, Aug. 5], describing why Ross Perot got out of the 1992 presidential race, I have a question: How could Perot, with the enormous assets available to him, not check out the credibility of controversial "sometime soldier of fortune" Scott Barnes and his charges of political intrigue by the Republican Party? Barnes has been lying to the public for years with his cloak-and-dagger make-believe charges about pow rescues, cia assassinations and finally Republican smear campaigns. Ross Perot and Scott Barnes deserve each other. WILL LEVISON...
...found himself on an April day on a hillside in Italy, trying to lead a platoon that was pinned down by German gunners and surrounded by land mines called Bouncing Betties. When Dole saw his radioman go down, he crawled out of his foxhole to retrieve him; the soldier he was trying to save was already dead, and by the time the firing stopped, Dole very nearly...
...John Gotti was anything, we learn, he was a man consumed by feelings. The film tracks Gotti's ascent from an impetuous Gambino soldier in the early '70s--the kind of guy who would quickly eliminate a colleague who performed poorly on a hit--to a media-worshipped don who for years remained invincible to prosecution. Assante's glamour works to his advantage as he captures Gotti's magnetic blend of arrogance and affability and thick-necked earnestness. Gotti ruled by gut and fist, and he had little tolerance for the mahogany-paneled sedateness of dons like Carlo Gambino...
...camp, most notably Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin who resents Lebed's continuing attempts at self promotion. Although Yeltsin hasn't yet given Lebed the go-ahead, he may do so in order to give him a certain amount of rope, possibly in the hope that the tough-talking ex-soldier will hang himself. "If Lebed makes peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin wins," says TIME's Andrew Keith. "If Lebed doesn't make peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin can hold him accountable and get rid of him." -->