Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another Haitian source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the coup leaders included Gen. Guy Francois, commander of the Dessalines military barracks in Port-au-Prince; and Lt. Col. Himmler Rebu, commander of the Leopards battalion, an elite commando corps...
...Explosion just as we pulled up in here. Get us all kinds of ambulances." That urgent message was radioed by fire battalion chief Marion Germann moments after a huge explosion at a Kansas City construction site last week. At 4 a.m. two engines manned by six fire fighters had raced to battle a blaze engulfing a pickup truck. They had barely arrived at the scene when the powerful blast erupted in a nearby trailer...
Although the Reagan Administration insists that the troops will be kept far from the battle zone, the news that an American battalion moved within a dozen miles of the Nicaraguan border suggests that the Administration is once again putting its obsession with toppling the Sandinista government above the highly acclaimed regional peace plan...
...spotlight may soon shift to Haiti. Leon Kellner, the U.S. attorney in Miami who prepared one of the two pending cases against Noriega, is concluding an investigation of Haitian Colonel Jean-Claude Paul for allegedly helping the Medellin cartel move cocaine into the U.S. Paul, who commands an infantry battalion in Port-au-Prince, is widely regarded as Haiti's most powerful military man. For more than a year Haitian exiles have suspected that the airstrip on Paul's ranch, across a valley from Port-au-Prince, is a refueling point for U.S.-bound cargoes of cocaine. Paul's former...
Fouhy has had various jobs in his television journalism career. After commanding a U.S. Marine Corps battalion in Beirut, Fouhy got a job in television news as a reporter and producer in 1961, a time when "TV was an up and coming medium," he says...