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Died. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 93, the first black general in the U.S. armed forces; of leukemia; in North Chicago, Ill. A Howard University dropout, Davis began his career in 1898 as a temporary first lieutenant in charge of a volunteer company in the Spanish-American War. He was a lieutenant colonel by 1920, but it was not until the 1940 presidential campaign that F.D.R. elevated the 63-year-old soldier to the rank of brigadier general. After serving as Eisenhower's special adviser on the problems of black soldiers in the European theater, Davis retired...
...issues and in theology, church leadership and local pastors in liberal Protestant churches have often been more progressive than their congregations, and sometimes positively radical. The Episcopalian, quasi-official magazine of the U.S. Episcopal Church, angered many communicants with its defense of a $40,000 grant to the militant Spanish-American Alianza in New Mexico. A breezy Methodist campus magazine, motive, ran into trouble last year when printers initially refused to set four-letter words in an issue on women's liberation; the next month's issue was pulled from the presses by the United Methodist Church Board...
...President William Howard Taft moved 20,000 troops to the Mexican border to protect American lives and property threatened by the Mexican revolution−but recognized congressional jurisdiction by refusing to send forces over the boundary. Presidents asked for and received formal declarations for the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, the Mexican War and World Wars...
Trinidad's Indian population was virtually exterminated and replaced by African slaves. As years passed, bloods mixed, profits dwindled, and Trinidad became little more than a backwater of the stagnant Spanish empire. In 1797, the British occupied the island, with plans for launching a revolution in South America. They even went so far as to draft a British-style constitution for an independent Spanish-American country. But such grandiose dreams were lost in the swamps of political and logistical reality...
Only three of Morenci's nine Marines made it back alive. But Joe Sor-relman, 21, the Navajo who had first failed the aptitude test, Leroy Cisneros, 21, a Spanish-American, and Mike Cranford, 22, an Anglo, rarely see each other now. Sorrelman moved to Phoenix, and the other two, who live less than a mile apart, find that each meeting revives too many memories for them. Yet none of the three is really angry about the war. Cisneros survived 42 patrols in Viet Nam, mostly as the exposed point man, and saw his unit chewed up behind...