Word: squad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fourth of July is the true story of Ron Kovic, a kid from Long Island, N.Y., who got his spine shattered in Viet Nam. Back home he became bitter, questioning his old values of family and patriotism, before convincing himself he could best serve his country as a squad leader in the war against the war. This morality play could be a turnoff if it weren't for Cruise's presence. Says Tom Pollock, head of Universal Pictures, the film's patron: "Tom Cruise is all America's all-American boy. The film's journey is more powerful when...
Steve Piltch starts his first season as head coach for both the men's and women's teams with a fresh outlook, a pool of young players, and an extraordinarily deep men's squad...
...side, the returners are led by Co-Captains Tim Harte and junior John Mee, who already qualified for the 400-meter dash for the IC4A meet in March during the squad's opening victory over Boston College...
Despite all this talent on the men's team, the best performer on either squad might be Meredith Rainey...
...government had been under growing pressure to take action since the hit- squad affair burst onto the front pages of the country's newspapers in October. At that time a prisoner on death row, former policeman Butana Almond Nofomela, alleged that he had been part of a team that "eliminated" Mxenge in 1981. After being named in Nofomela's affidavit, former police captain Dirk Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge...