Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Like every other village they had raided that day, the place had been hastily abandoned. Only later, as the platoon moved on across the veldt, was there any firing at all. Toward sundown, Garros spotted a gazelle. "Get her, adjudant! Get her!" he shouted. The huge, tattooed second-in-command stood up in the truck behind and dropped the graceful animal with a single shot at 400 meters...
...Chad campaign will revive the old legion cry: "Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive la Légion Etrangère." Many legionnaires consider the campaign a temporary reprieve for a fading outfit. "The Viets tried to kill us, and so did the Algerians and the French high command," said one veteran. "But in the end, red tape will get us. This may be our last beau geste." Said Garros: "We're damned glad to be here...
...months, he will lose Blue Cross coverage. Money pinch or not, Ray Russo has no plans to look for work because that would wipe out unemployment benefits and supplemental compensation. THE SPACE SPECIALIST. Jose Jimenez (no kin to the Bill Dana comedy character) is a former Navy lieutenant commander who spent the past seven years at North American Rockwell's plant in Downey, Calif., as an Apollo command-module training officer. At 44, he has enough plaques, awards, citations and pins to wall up a suburban picture window. Last September he was let go as part...
...press card does not a reporter make. It's an old verity, but one apparently not familiar to the U.S. Military Assistance Command's Office of Information (MACOI) in South Viet Nam. Its Saigon accreditation office issued press cards last month to four U.S. military investigators. What they were supposed to investigate is unclear, though genuine correspondents in Saigon suspect they intended to use their press cover to probe sources of news leaks, the operation of the black market and the scope of antiwar movements. Despite attempts by the agents to melt invisibly into the Saigon press corps...
...creed: Hate thine enemy, and never let the home team down. In the end, what truly overtakes Patton is Patton. In a field hospital, the general strikes a battle-fatigued G.I. The shock waves of the slap reverberate back to America, where Congressmen shrill for the general's command. Patton is relieved, and later placed under the authority of his onetime subordinate, Omar N. Bradley, played by Karl Maiden as if he were impersonating a potato...