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...chaos, attempts were made to organize the men and distribute an assortment of old weapons (mainly World War II-vintage M-l rifles) and combat boots, many without laces. Almost everyone, strangely, seemed in a holiday mood. "We will eat the Turks!" said one young, grinning, newly mobilized trooper, wearing his khaki U.S. Army shirt and cradling an aged automatic weapon still caked with grease. As we walked along the streets with the troops, an old lady dressed in black crossed herself and shouted to us: "St. George be with...
...tried to slip out of the building but were gunned down by the Arabs. The children, aged 10 and 4, were killed instantly; the mother died a few hours later in a hospital. By then Israeli soldiers had ringed the building and had killed all three intruders; one Israeli trooper died in the fighting. In the wake of the Israeli retaliatory attacks following Nahariya, there was strong Arab reaction. Military leaders scheduled a meeting in Cairo this week to plan joint aid for Lebanon. Egypt and Syria threatened to send planes if Israel continued to hit the Palestinian camps...
...works best for the way it shatters at the end. But ultimately empty and cliched, so that affecting as the picture is, one makes cynical remarks about oh-how-alienated-they-all-are on the way home. With an appearance by Professor John Womack, Jr. as a Montana State Trooper who says "Yer quite an individual, boy," near the end. See it because of all the critical conniptions it triggered. At the Cheri...
...pickup truck traveling on an Alabama highway at high speed went round a curve, spun out of control, and turned over into a ditch. The driver, Kenneth R. Barton, lay helpless, bleeding from an artery. State Trooper Kenyon M. Lassiter happened by in his patrol car and quickly applied a tourniquet. He eventually got Barton safely to a hospital, and was credited with saving his life...
...long ago, Trooper Lassiter stood by the side of a car he had stopped and was writing the driver a ticket when a pickup truck swerved across the road, struck the car Lassiter had stopped, and killed the trooper as he tried to duck behind his patrol car. The pickup truck bounced off the patrol car and kept on going. The next day the truck's driver turned himself in to the Covington County sheriff. He admitted he had been out the night before visiting several bars, but was unable to remember going home or who drove the truck...