Regiment

The Cleveland Browns won the first All-America Football Conference title Dec. 22, 1946, but an incident the day before had a bigger impact on the team that would dominate professional football for the next 10 years.Coach Paul Brown found out that team captain Ed Daniell and two other players had been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 2:30 Saturday morning. Receiver Dante Lavelli still remembers what happened as the Browns gathered for their Saturday practice."He canned [Daniell]

For more than four decades, veterans of the U.S. Army's last all-black unit were shamed by their country's official history, which characterized them as cowardly and inept soldiers during the Korean War.Yesterday, only days before the unveiling of the Korean War Memorial in Washington, the Army finally sought to soften that blow, rewriting its official history to attribute the 24th Regiment's failings in combat to the mistrust, hostility and confusion caused...

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- The 16th Infantry Regiment here boasts a long and distinguished combat record. It fought at Manassas and Gettysburg. It was the first unit to hit Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944. It has earned its motto: "Always Ready."But the 16th's storied history is in the process of adding an embarrassing footnote. For the last week, a small army of FBI agents has swarmed over the tree-lined, campus-like setting of Fort Riley, interviewing soldiers about a former sergeant who is the prime suspect in the worst civilian bombing in American history.

SAMARA, Russia -- Surviving officers of Russia's most crippled regiment believe they know what went wrong when their men took horrendous casualties in Chechnya: They contend that Russia's liberal politicians stabbed them in the back.It's a time-honored complaint among losing soldiers, but it could be a harbinger of dangerous unrest in the military in the months to come.The officers of the 81st Motorized Infantry Regiment, based in this Volga River city, say they were ordered into Grozny, the capital of rebellious Chechnya, on New Year's Eve and then were abandoned when the government withdrew air and artillery support because of protests over the killing of Chechen civilians.

SAMARA, Russia -- An abiding dread has settled on this peaceful old city along the Volga River, as Samarans have begun to understand that those were mainly their sons whose bodies were left behind on the streets of Grozny, to be torn apart by hungry dogs and bursts of shrapnel.They were from Samara's own 81st Motorized Infantry Regiment, which led the assault on the Chechen capital and lost as many as 70 percent or more of its men -- dead, wounded or missing -- in three horrible days.That one regiment from one city could take such losses seems too much to take in. Yesterday, as a deadening snow was drifting down, on tramcars, on buses, on street corners and in churches -- in all the places where people were huddled together -- they were quietly asking each other, when will we know who is coming back?

August Court Days will bring our Colonial forebears to Leesburg, Va., next weekend. Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe will be there, along with more than 100 other costumed re-enactors, who will present street vignettes, participate in 18th-century dances, demonstrate fencing and give lectures on period clothing.The August event is a re-creation of the days in the mid-to-late 1700s when the court was in session and farm families in the outlying areas came to town to hear the latest news, exchange gossip, buy and sell wares and enjoy the street entertainment.

50 Years Ago* Mrs. H. B. Wilmer, of Philadelphia, presented the schooner yacht Elizabeth as a gift to the Naval Academy. Midshipman D. M. Saunders, commodore of the Academy Boat Club, accepted the yacht on behalf of the regiment of midshipmen. -- The Sun, April 5, 1944.* Brush fires swept nearly 2,000 acres along the north shore of the Magothy River in Anne Arundel County. Firefighters, including Italian war prisoners from Fort Meade, fought the fires for more than five hours. -- The Sun, April 11, 1944.

The Redcoats are coming to Baltimore -- and City Council members of Irish descent are mounting a charge to block their arrival.The British army troops are part of "Royal Regiments on Parade," a program by 80-odd military musicians on a nationwide tour that includes a performance at the Baltimore Arena Dec. 8.Irish-American council members want the city to cancel a contract with the tour's promoter, contending that the performers are from units that have...

Five Anne Arundel County high school cheerleading groups will participate in the first Maryland Cheerleading Championships today at Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory.Broadneck, Chesapeake, Glen Burnie, Old Mill and Spalding will compete with about 20 other schools from around the state.Competition starts at 10:30 a.m.

At every other moment in the Baltimore Opera Company's new production of Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment," someone seems to be pouring champagne. This is an appropriate stage metaphor both for this opera and the kind of production it received: bubbly and frothy, insubstantial but fun.The real hero of this production was director John Lehmeyer. He has moved the time and place of the opera from the Napoleonic wars in the Austrian Tyrol to the 1890s in Algiers. This places the opera squarely in Never-Never Land.