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...early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...
Mission Accomplished. Whether or not the warnings had their intended effect, the Rhodesians reported their mission accomplished after five days at Mapai, and packed up to return home. The joint operations command in Salisbury announced that 32 guerrillas had been killed and only one Rhodesian-a pilot who was shot down after taking off from the airstrip at Mapai. For its part, Mozambique reported that it shot down three Rhodesian planes and a helicopter, and engaged the Rhodesian forces in "heavy fighting." Minister of Combined Operations Roger Hawkins denied such claims, as well as Mozambique's announcement that...
...were faulty, so communication with them was impossible; fog in England hampered air-support operations; the road over which the ground forces were supposed to travel was too narrow, slowing their progress to a painful crawl. Finally, there were more German troops in the area than the Allied high command expected, partly because they had ignored their own intelligence reports...
Despite the fact that the characters are based on historical models, they come out as standard-issue war-movie types. As a result, the film lacks the grandeur one sometimes finds in the literature of military history, where erroneous command decisions, flowing out of the psychological flaws of the generals, can take on a near-tragic force. It also lacks the common humanity of well-made war movies, in which one is invited to share the fates of a small unit whose interest is survival rather than the big historical picture. Aspiring to combine the two forms, A Bridge...
...particularly by older Israelis, as the daring, one-eyed hero of the wars of 1956 and 1967. Outside Israel, Dayan is probably better known than any other Israeli except former Premier Golda Meir, 79. "Whenever he walks into the State Department in Washington," says one Dayan supporter, "he will command respect...