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...shares his carbine with two others, does not have a uniform or even a helmet to show he is a soldier. As if to compensate, he proudly wears mottled blue-black swirls on his arms and chest -- make-believe tattoos. His commander drew them with charcoal because no one in camp can wield tattoo needles properly. Other kids tease him about trying to act like a grownup and joke that he even has a girlfriend. But Khi Ha Won shakes his head with shy dignity. "Oh, no, impossible." He knows he is too young for that...
Gantt hopes to make inroads among Republican women with a pro-choice stance on abortion, which contrasts sharply with Helms' adamant antiabortion position. A Mason-Dixon poll shows that he leads Helms 44% to 43% with 13% undecided. Yet the same poll at a similar stage in 1984 had former Governor Jim Hunt ahead of Helms by 15 percentage points -- and he lost by 4. Though prominent Democrats like Sanford have pledged to go all out for Gantt, he has no chance of amassing the $17 million that Helms spent six years ago and that his campaign claims...
...lightweight weapons a youngster can be taught to use as easily as an adult. Historian John Keegan calls the M-16 "the transistor radio of modern warfare" and argues that it has changed the nature of conflict by making fighting fit for the weak. Children may not make perfect soldiers, but they make perfectly good ones...
...Rosenblatt explored the attitudes of youngsters growing up in the shadow of combat. His TIME cover story "Children of War" portrayed the resilience of war's most innocent victims. By looking at children who actually do the fighting, TIME now examines the innocent perpetrators, child warriors, whose efforts often make little difference to the outcome of a battle but whose participation crystallizes all that is terrible about...
History suggests that there is nothing new about child warriors, partly because in centuries past youngsters were looked upon as small adults, and thus the sight of them in combat was less horrifying. But there is a difference between being trained to fight and being used to make a symbolic point. In the Children's Crusade of the 13th century, the thousands of boys and girls who were dispatched from Europe to the Holy Land went off unarmed and undefended; their very youth was meant to awe the enemy. Most died of disease or starvation along the way; many...