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Officers James A. DeFrancesco, Joseph Wilson, Peter Neal, E.-J. Frammartino and Lt. Edward Huffey each received a Medal of Valor and an eight hour day-off, said Lt. Det. Frank Pasquarello...
While Yeltsin tries to look presidential, the verbal slanging has been left to his choice for vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, a gruff air force colonel who was captured during the war in Afghanistan and given his country's highest award for valor, Hero of the Soviet Union. A leader of the Communists for Democracy reform movement, Rutskoi told reporters last week that he simply could not understand "why Ryzhkov would even consider running for president after what he managed to do during five years as prime minister...
...Medal of Honor since 1863, questions about possible bias have been raised in Congress. Last week President Bush named Corporal Stowers as the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War I or II. The medal is the nation's highest award for valor. "He fought not for glory," said Bush as he presented the award to Stowers' sisters, "but for a cause larger than himself -- the cause of liberty...
...buccaneer billionaire and a professed socialist, renowned for a blend of macho charm and armored-tank aggressiveness. A British union leader once ruefully observed, "He could charm the birds out of the trees, then shoot them." Although decorated by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery for World War II valor and elected in 1964 as a Labour Member of Parliament, Maxwell was involved in a corporate takeover battle that led Britain's Department of Trade and Industry to conclude in 1971 that he could not "be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." The rebuff hardly stopped...
...most extreme example of such a transformative war is the Six-Day War. It changed Israel from a weak, marginal refuge for refugees, clinging to the < shores of the Mediterranean, to the very symbol of self-reliance, power and valor. (An image subsequently transformed, of course, by ensuing violent upheavals, namely the Yom Kippur War, Lebanon and the intifadeh.) It is too early to assume that America will enjoy a similar triumph in the gulf war. But if this war should conclude half as decisively as the Six-Day War, America will not be the same...