Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operations center, we had three choices," said Captain George Petrokilis, 34, assistant operations officer of the 12th Canadian Armored Regiment base in Visoko. "Bringing him across the line of confrontation to us wasn't going to fly. We couldn't send the vehicle on the bridge because that would leave our guys without one. So we cranked up an ambulance from our hospital here to take him to the Serb field station in Ilijas...
...populist rhetoric with a crude yearning for ease and glory. Proclaiming slogans like "I'm just the same as you," he careens through Moscow in a motorcade of limousines, accompanied by a cadre of thuggish bodyguards that has included at least one member of the infamous Black Berets, the regiment of ^ Soviet commandos that once terrorized the Baltic states. Even now, notes Oberlin College's Frederick Starr, he adopts "the full trappings of a tin- horn dictator...
Finally, one wall features architectural surveys taken from a professor's office and another displays an army regiment's "Don't Tread on Me" flag...
...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of Black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's version of the tale, Glory...
Revenge for more recent horrors also inspires them. Many of the Serbs in the First Brigade of the Doboj Regiment defending this ridge were driven from homes in territory now controlled mostly by Muslims. They have come to these trenches as refugees, often after harrowing escapes; they have lost everything and say they will not run any farther. The great majority are peasants who have no skill at politics but a great capacity for hardship when they are certain of their course. They are Serbian true believers. No matter what the politicians order, no matter what the world thinks, they...