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Article: Peacekeeping School in Bavaria Trains GIs in Nuances of U.N. Duty
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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Dawn broke with the sound of gunfire from a lone sniper hidden
in the trees. An hour later, four refugees wandered into a
minefield. Smugglers darted through the woods. Hungry peasants
begged for food from a passing convoy.
At 9, several mortar rounds detonated, followed by a
hit-and-run attack by paramilitary guerrillas. At 10, a car bomb
exploded near a U.N. checkpoint. Guerrillas delivered the bodies of
two executed prisoners. Angry villagers tried to lynch a suspected
terrorist, while the town drunk offered to swap his comely daughter
for a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
It's just another morning of peace in Danubia, a mythical
nation where American soldiers are learning the nuances of ...