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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were in the mess hall. There was a big pot-bellied stove at one end," recalls Marilyn Whisman Tyler '45, who organized the two dozen women who made up Radcliffe's entertainment Unit...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Radcliffe Rallies in War Effort | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...Entertainment Unit first performed at the Radcliffe College United Nations War Relief Benefit, a show and carnival Radcliffe students sponsored to raise money for war relief, and continued to perform for troops on weekends through...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Radcliffe Rallies in War Effort | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Tyler had studied ballet before coming to Radcliffe in 1941. She performed a dance for the Entertainment Unit, but hit a pair of rainbow striped men's boxers underneath her ballet costume...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Radcliffe Rallies in War Effort | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...await adecision by the Clinton Administration on whether to send them into Bosnia. The White House said it "would not rule out" ground action to release the nearly 400 UN hostages currently held by Bosnian Serb forces. ButTIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays sending the 24th Marine Amphibious Expeditionary Unit after the hostages is highly unlikely. "In the first place, it's an amazingly difficult mission to expect these Marines to find 400 people in these mountains where the Serbs have lived for hundreds of years." More important, according to Thompson, is that sending in the Marines would likely be unpopular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSNIA . . . MARINES AWAIT ORDERS | 5/30/1995 | See Source »

...over for dinner and intimate talks. (The spy had ingratiated himself by presenting the general with a bust of his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.) As proficient as he was, the American agent did not work for the CIA. He was a U.S. Army sergeant posted to a top-secret military unit. "They are the agents no one talks about," says a senior Pentagon officer. Now TIME takes an exclusive look at these little-known and, until now, barely supervised secret agents of the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOLDIER SPIES | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

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