Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than most professional athletes. Julius Boros, for example, first won the P.G.A. championship at 48. But as Palmer has admitted, few men go on winning past 40, and Palmer's 5 children are in college now. Despite the long I stretches between displays of his old brilliance, a battalion of "Arnie's Army" remains, believing in I him, a little like Lee's Confederates after Appomattox. What the army remembers are the things that made him the first man to turn golf into a truly popular spectator sport: his remarkable assaults upon a golf course, audacious physical...
...with the Vietnamese and Cambodian troops who were fighting the Americans. He travelled mainly on foot or by bicycle, in traditional Vietnamese clothes, but the U.S. authorities were clearly aware of his presence. A reporter for the London Sunday Times told Burchett recently that he was with an American battalion that tried to capture the Australian correspondent alive, by covering an area where Burchett was supposed to be with nerve gas. (Apparently, the U.S. authorities thought Burchett could disclose the whereabouts of American prisoners of war.) Burchett is aware of the risk he ran: he refers several times in Grasshoppers...
...week's end the Israelis remained in southern Lebanon. Best estimates were that the Israeli forces consisted of a battalion of infantry, supported by artillery and armor. They were also protected by heavy air cover and a flotilla of patrol boats off the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon to cut off supplies for the Palestinians. Under protection of Israeli artillery, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman even toured the area in an unmarked automobile, accompanied by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur and Major General Yanush Ben-Gal, commander of Israel's northern sector...
...massive maneuvers was to give the Americans practice in moving reinforcements to Europe from U.S. bases. Two weeks before the Orange "attack," the U.S. 1st Infantry Division was airlifted from Fort Riley, Kans., the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division arrived from Fort Carson, Colo., and the 2nd Battalion (Ranger) of the 75th Infantry came from Fort Lewis, Wash. The exercises were the first large-scale test of "interoperability"-coordination of the somewhat different communications systems, tactics and equipment used by the alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover...
...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...