51. Inland, the soldiers had more trouble. 52. Like everyone else, soldiers have to eat. 53. Milosevic began to backtrack on the release when NATO responded that the soldiers had to be released unconditionally. 54. No one believed that every Japanese soldier had to be rooted out of every Japanese stronghold on every island of the Pacific to win the war. 55. Northern Alliance soldiers had to battle for three days to quell the uprising by Taliban prisoners who attacked their guards and seemed determined to fight to the death. 56. On top of the problems apparent in dealing with a civil war, U.N. soldiers might well have the headache of dealing with two openly hostile forces. 57. Plus, American soldiers had to be cautious when shooting the foam because it could have suffocated the same people they had come to feed. 58. Russian soldiers had little luck in dislodging an enemy that fired weapons while hiding behind civilian captives. 59. Since Sunday, soldiers have forcibly entered and searched at least three houses here belonging to Gutierrez. 60. Slack said he also learned, a few days into the rescue effort, that another soldier had a brother who was lost as well. |