Word: vietnams
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From active duty in Vietnam to life as a bat cop in one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, Ronnie Watson has seen his share of action...
...Army, which was active mostly in the 1970s, could be a signal that Syria is finally getting serious about peace with Israel. In raids staged throughout the weekend, Lebanese agents rounded up seven men thought to be members of the terrorist group that first fought American involvement in Vietnam, then moved on to champion Palestinian causes. The group, responsible for an attack on Israel's Lod airport in 1972 that killed 24 people, has hardly been visible since the mid 1980s. With many of its members now in jail or dead, the group is little more than a memory...
McKinney, 46, is not just any NCO. A highly decorated, 28-year veteran who served with the infantry in Vietnam, he rose through every enlisted Army leadership position before reaching its peak. Four of his brothers have worn Army green and his identical twin James is sergeant major of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, overseeing troops at Aberdeen and the Army's other training bases...
...conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War's most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier...
DIED. MITCHELL GOODMAN, 73, passionate Vietnam-era antidraft activist prosecuted with Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin as one of the Boston Five in 1968; of cancer; in Temple, Maine...