Word: regiment
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...entirely. For the specific historical events the film narrates -- the formation, training and terrible blooding in battle of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first black fighting unit enlisted in the Union cause -- are little known yet resonant with high symbolic significance. The 54th, led by an idealistic 25-year-old white man, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick skillfully blending shyness and tenacity), had to fight to fight. Their white comrades-in-arms were full of contemptuous prejudice against them, and the high command was afraid to arm black men who had their own bitter racial grievances (many were runaway...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster...
...Carol's," he whispers. "They don't cut hair; they style it." Visual confirmation of his words stands atop his head, a regiment of follicle-soldiers gelled in position...
...Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to Protestant assassins...
...President of West Germany, he was a 19-year-old private with the Ninth Infantry Regiment in Potsdam when war came. In 1949, Von Weizsacker's father was convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and sentenced to seven years in jail; his sentence was commuted...