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...Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During a brief argument, a Thai sergeant said, "If you fire at us, we'll fire back." Replied the Vietnamese, "If you fire at us, we'll invade Thailand." In the end, the Vietnamese pulled back into Kampuchea after being warned that the Thai government would "take action." Thai soldiers set out orange sticks marking the frontier...
Only $2.5 billion would represent "program cuts," and Weinberger could not say last week what they would be. Speculation is that the Pentagon may buy fewer fighter planes and reduce the troubled Sergeant York DIVAD antiaircraft gun system. None of these programs, however, are likely to be canceled...
...dismal New Year's day I saw a sergeant lose an excellent chance to pocket $138.66 in cash money: I remember it brilliantly because I lost the same chance at the same moment...The dawn of the new year turns the thoughts of homeless men to peace beyond the dissecting room, and I accompanied the sergeant and a coroner on a tour of fatal scenes...The sergeant...began a search of the dead man's pockets, looking for means to identify him. He found nothing whatever of that sort, but from a pants pocket he drew...
...some, the weekend came close to achieving that end. "If the country rejected us, and it did," said John Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...
Though the Los Angeles police department has now assigned more officers to the violent neighborhoods in response to community outrage, police have little hope of ending the killing that took 216 lives last year. Says Sergeant Wes McBride, a longtime Los Angeles gang investigator: "It's typical for a kid to join the same gang his father belonged to. No matter how many people we put out there, we can't be on every block 34 hours...