Word: troops
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie met today with the NATO allies, attempting to formulate a unified Western position on the crisis. Harold Brown, the secretary of defense, said that several AWAC reconnaissance planes had been dispatched to West Germany, presumably to keep a closer watch on Soviet troop movements along the Polish border...
...their lips. He asks them repeatedly if they are comfortable, and though they do not reply, he seems satisfied that they are. The crowd smiles to see his humane act; small children mock the soldiers' stiff stance but are only able to hold still for a few seconds. A troop of soldiers arrives at the memorial; each man takes his hat off to the bronze. Their leader sees the young man with the washcloth, and walks up to him happily to thank him for his service to his fellow nationalist Chinese...
...Iraqi surprise attack bogged down? Military analysts had several answers. One was that the Iraqis were following a plodding. Soviet-inspired strategy requiring large quantities of cumbersome materiel that hampered rapid troop movements. Another was that the overconfident Iraqis had misjudged Iran's capacity to resist and had prepared themselves only for a brief blitzkrieg. A further Iraqi miscalculation was to assume that the Khomeini regime would crumble at the first military attack because of internal dissensions...
Sixteen hundred and twenty-five members of the Class of '84--which boasts the lowest female/male ratio and the highest percentage of minorities of any Harvard class--will troop into Memorial Hall this morning to register for their first semester of Veritas...
Poland. While there have been no unusual troop movements so far, the Soviets have been gathering units for several weeks in western areas, preparing part of the U.S.S.R. for regular Warsaw Pact maneuvers in East Germany next month. The mobilized Soviet units will probably transit through Poland and could quickly be thrown into action if necessary...