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...plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie's mother, a marquise, shows up, claims her and takes her away to teach her how to curtsy instead of salute. At the end, the lovers are reunited and everyone joins in a rejoicing chorus: "Hurrah for France...
...massive search-and-destroy missions, favoring more mobile "spoiler" patrols of four or five men sent out to ambush and disrupt the enemy. Abrams gave subordinate commanders unusually wide latitude. Always a strong believer in risking machines more than men, he smoothly replaced ground forces with planes as troop reductions proceeded...
...with the broad outlines of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy. Not that Ford lacks opinions of his own. In the past, he has strongly favored U.S. support of Israel, a stance that worries some Arab leaders, notably Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Ford also believes in maintaining a large U.S. troop presence in Western Europe, at least until the Soviet Union agrees to some kind of mutual force reduction. As a longtime member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, he consistently endorsed big defense budgets. Says Ford: "The way to win peace is to build up a military establishment strong enough...
What we have is a troop train carrying relief and medical supplies to a snowy Nevada cavalry fort supposedly afflicted by an outbreak of cholera. As the train chugs onward through the mountains, bodies proliferate like Ten Little Indians, telegraph wires go dead, troop cars are uncoupled and plunge spectacularly into ravines. As always in MacLean, alarming quantities of wine and whisky are consumed...
...protect their guest, the Israelis organized the most intensive security system in their history. Communications gear and bulletproof limousines were flown into the country by U.S. Air Force transports. An army of 19,000 policemen, soldiers and government agents were on guard. Troops lined the 32-mile route from the airport to Jerusalem. A cordon sanitaire encircled every area that the President visited. His movements were shadowed by three helicopters-a command center, a troop carrier and a flying medical team...