Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Supreme Court Monday refused to hear the appeal of a white Cambridge policeman who claimed he was not promoted from patrolman to sergeant because of reverse discrimination...
...MASTER SERGEANT Joe Henderson is proud of his outfit, the 801st Junior Rear Officer Training Corps at Minuteman Technical High School in Lexington. "They get some grand opportunities--why, some of them last week got to go up in a C-135 and refuel jets. Mr. Hicks, you got to go up, didn...
...Morocco's war against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis with a compromise peace-keeping plan. Similarly, it was Nigeria's displeasure over the executions of 13 top officials in Liberia that ultimately forced the erratic new regime of Sergeant Samuel Doe to refrain from further bloodspilling. With the exception of those states that actually border South Africa, Nigeria has done more than any other African nation to assist liberation movements in the white-ruled tip of the continent. As Shagari puts it, "This holy war against colonialism and racism...
...student needed money to get home, or for food at Elsie's, Tommy was always ready with the cash," University police captain George L. Walsh said. "He was the 'mayor' of the yard--always a smile and a handshake for everyone," police sergeant Arthur G. Luongo said...
...tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox representative), have to run through the qualification course with a pickup driver, Corporal Victor Feliciano, 32 (nursing home worker), and loader, Corporal Terry Bell, 27 (prison teacher). They all work...