Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lubin said Jean-Claude Paul, commander of the 700-man Dessalines Barracks, was named commander-in-chief of the army, but Avril did not mention Paul. Dessalines is said to be the most feared unit in the 7000-man Haitian army...
...pessimistic. Last year's team, battered and bruised, should have been nicknamed the Black and Blue, not the Crimson. And maybe the best designation for this year's club is the Green. Yohe, who started only a couple of games in 1986, is an elder statesman on this unit...
...that changed within a few hours. Last Monday evening the 77th Brigade was replaced by the 22nd Light Infantry, a battle-hardened division that was pulled from eastern Burma. Half an hour after, the new unit took up positions, its soldiers opened fire; an estimated four were killed by the first volleys. Through the following day, the shooting against unarmed ralliers continued. According to reports received by officials in Washington, the soldiers appeared to have orders to fire: "There were well-organized bodies of troops roaming the city, shooting at groups of demonstrators...
...having refused to hand over injured demonstrators, were shot by the soldiers. Radio Rangoon broadcast news of the decapitations of three policemen outside Rangoon and later reported that in the town of North Okkalapa, where two of the executions supposedly took place, 10,000 demonstrators had surrounded an army unit, causing more gunfire...
...that if Hughes had won, it was going to buy many of the necessary computers from IBM. Hughes says that in preparing its bid, it received inflated cost estimates from IBM on equipment needed from the computer maker. According to Hughes, while IBM said it would charge the GM unit $223 million for spare parts, Big Blue's own bid to the FAA placed the cost for those same spare $ parts at $11 million. IBM called the Hughes charges baseless...