Army

A dream had carried the boys so far from home, some 5,000 miles across the ocean to a cramped and dingy apartment in Philadelphia: a hope that ice hockey could change their lives. Ivan Pravilov could fulfill that dream, they were told. He could take them from the daily grind of post-communist Ukraine to the gleaming ice of the NHL. He'd done it before. He'd done if for Andrei Zyuzin, who went on to play for six NHL teams. He'd done it for Konstantin Kalmikov, a third-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1996.

No one could accuse Marty Seligman of thinking small. The University of Pennsylvania psychology professor earned the respect of his peers studying the equivalent of depression in dogs, but it is his more recent fascination with the flip side of sadness - how to get life right - that has made this serious man a pop-psych power hitter. At 67, he is using his academic reputation and his formidable sales skills to reform, well, just about everything. His premise: that we've spent too much time trying to fix what's wrong and not nearly enough figuring out how to make more things right.

Arthur B. "Dutch" Schultz, 82, an 82d Airborne Division paratrooper portrayed in the 1962 epic about D-Day, The Longest Day, and whose battle experiences were documented in several major World War II history books, died of pulmonary disease Sunday at home in Helendale, Calif. The former Frankford and Bucks County resident was raised in Detroit, where he graduated in 1940 from St. Philip Neri High School. After two years in New Mexico with the Civilian Conservation Corps, Mr. Schultz itched for action: He enlisted in the Army in 1942 and volunteered to be a paratrooper.

It's famously known that French filmmakers don't conform to any subject matter or genre - they'd rather flout the rules. But beginning with René Clément's La Bataille du Rail ( The Battle of the Rails ) in 1946, they have continually revisited one theme: life in France under Nazi occupation. This tradition has been enhanced by a recent wave of revisionist films that look beyond the official story to the contribution forgotten individuals and minority groups made to the war effort.

In an unorthodox step, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has picked a retired general to return to duty and become the Army's new chief of staff, senior defense officials said yesterday. The officials said Rumsfeld planned to ask President Bush to nominate retired four-star Army Gen. Peter Schoomaker, 57, who previously headed elite Special Operations forces, to succeed Gen. Eric Shinseki, who retires today, as the Army's top officer. Rumsfeld's choice of a retiree to vault past top active Army generals to head the service and become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff comes against a backdrop of strained relations between Rumsfeld and the Army, Reuters reported.

The Army wants you - to help it celebrate the 78 members of its 2005 U.S. Army all-Americans. To do that, the Army is conducting a nationwide tour this year to introduce its selectees. And yesterday, upon its arrival here, Callahan Bright, a senior two-way tackle for Harriton High School, was introduced as such a selectee. Today, Marques Slocum, a massive force as an offensive guard for West Catholic High, will join Bright on a roster chosen from a poll of 400 nominees from across the nation.

Rutgers would like to settle its quarterback situation and put coach Terry Shea's West Coast offense into high gear today in its game against Army at Giants Stadium. But to do that, the Scarlet Knights (1-4) must contain the Cadets' wishbone offense. And that might not be easy. Army (4-0) is ranked third in the nation with 323 rushing yards per game, and with six backs who have carried the ball 25 times or more, it can wear down opponents. In addition, Army has a passing game, too. Ronnie McAda, who missed Army's last two games because of an ankle injury but might see time against Rutgers, has completed 16 of 25 passes for 332 yards and one touchdown this season.

John Joseph Levine, 72, of Hatfield Township, a retired job counselor and former Army career man who trained Chinese troops during World War II, died Thursday at Grand View Hospital near Sellersville. Mr. Levine, who was born and educated in Philadelphia, enlisted in the Army in December 1942 and went to China to train troops for fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater. He was an Army platoon sergeant during the war in Korea. Later, he was a rifle instructor in Hawaii and was a noncommissioned leader of a group of marksmen at Fort Knox, Ky. His Army career of more than 20 years ended in Germany as the Berlin Wall was going up. He settled in the Lansdale area and was an employment counselor for the Pennsylvania Job Service.

Temple will face four schools that were in bowl games last season and have five home games, according to the football schedule released yesterday. The Owls open the season Aug. 29 against Army at West Point (7 p.m.). The home opener at Lincoln Financial Field is Sept. 6 against Connecticut, which narrowly defeated Temple last season on a disputed call. In addition to UConn, the other bowl teams on the schedule are Penn State (Sept. 20), Central Michigan (Oct. 11) and Navy (Nov.

The Reagan administration is considering a plan to put a four-star admiral - rather than an Army general as previously planned - in charge of U.S. military operations in the Persian Gulf, the Washington Post reported today. The campaign to strengthen the Navy's role in the gulf by altering command rotation had been under way before last week's shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the cruiser USS Vincennes, officials told the Post, but the incident added impetus to the plan. Under the proposed change, Vice Adm. Henry Mustin, deputy chief of naval operations for plans, policy and operations would become the next head of the U.S. Central Command, officials told the newspaper.

WASHINGTON - Uncle Sam may not want you after all. In sharp contrast to the peak years of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Army last year took in no recruits with misconduct convictions or drug or alcohol issues, according to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press. And soldiers already serving on active duty now must meet tougher standards to stay on for further tours in uniform. The Army is also spending hundreds of thousands of dollars less in bonuses to attract recruits or entice soldiers to remain.

SANAA, Yemen - Fresh clashes between al-Qaeda fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key town in the county's south that fell to the militants more than a year ago. Officials said eight al-Qaeda fighters, four soldiers and five civilian volunteers fighting alongside the military were killed since the early hours of Sunday. The army started a two-pronged attack on the town of Jaar on Friday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The first woman to command the Army's drill sergeant training took legal action Monday to reclaim her job, alleging that she was improperly suspended last year because of sexism and racism and demanding that two of her superiors be investigated for abuse of their authority. Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King still does not know exactly what her superiors were investigating when they suspended her Nov. 29, according to her attorney, James Smith. He said the Army has declined to say specifically what it was looking into, beyond a general statement that it involved her conduct.

Edward James Andrews, 87, an Army veteran and paper company worker, died in his sleep Wednesday, April 18, at his home in Voorhees. Mr. Andrews was born in Manayunk and graduated from Roxborough High School in 1942. After graduation, he served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. A year later, he married Annie Louise Benton. He worked at Weyerhaeuser Paper for 40 years. Mr. Andrews was a generous man who donated to various charities, his son James said. He had a great sense of humor and loved word puzzles, board games, and his computer.

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon official signaled on Wednesday that the Army could lay off as many as 24,000 enlisted personnel and up to 5,000 officers within five years to meet a projected reduction in the force driven by budget cuts and the winding down of two wars. Pressed on the possibility of involuntary terminations, Thomas Lamont, an assistant secretary of the Army, told a Senate Armed Services panel that layoffs were possible as the Army shrinks from a peak of 570,000 to 490,000.

Stanley R. Resor, 94, who served two presidents as secretary of the Army for six years during the height of the Vietnam War and represented the United States during force-reduction negotiations in the mid-1970s, died Tuesday at his home in Washington. Mr. Resor, who was born in New York, was the son of Stanley B. Resor, president of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. Mr. Resor was 11 when he and family friends visited Jackson Hole, Wyo. He persuaded his father to buy a cattle ranch there, beginning a lifelong tie to the area.

YOU WOULDN'T think it would be a smart move if a man's intended told him she didn't like his red shirt and he went ahead and wore it anyway on an early date. But Regina Beers must have been the forgiving kind because she tolerated the red shirt and wound up marrying James E. Kearney anyway. Jim Kear-ney, a retired National Football League official who was active with Holy Cross Parish in Springfield, Delaware County, an Army veteran of the Korean War and a "Pop-Pop" to 18 grandchildren, died of pneumonia on Sunday . He was 79 and lived in Glen Mills.

Former Rutgers defensive lineman Eric LeGrand has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame's Unsung Hero Award, the organization announced. LeGrand has become an inspirational figure in the time since he was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 game against Army at Giants Stadium, using his upbeat personality and constant smile to reach out to others. LeGrand will be honored at the fifth annual New Jersey Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 9 at 7 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J. LeGrand, the NJHOF's fourth Unsung Hero honoree, was chosen due to his representation of courage, strength and character.

The arts in South Philadelphia just got a mobile ambassador in the form of a sprightly hued van known as ColorWheels. The 2011 Ford Transit Utility van awash in vivid primary colors will soon snake its way through the narrow streets of Bella Vista and its surrounding neighborhoods, spreading a message that touts the joys of making art. "We imagine ColorWheels to be this kind of Swiss Army knife of the arts that rolls up to the corner, opens the...

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said. Bales, 38, is accused of walking off a U.S. military base with his 9mm pistol and an M-4 rifle fitted with a grenade launcher before dawn on March 11, killing nine Afghan children and eight adults, and burning some of the bodies. It was the worst allegation of civilian killings by an American, and it has severely strained U.S.-Afghan ties at a critical time in the decade-old war. It's unclear what prompted the killings, but the case has drawn new attention to the debate over mental-health care for the troops, who have had record suicide rates and high incidences of post-traumatic stress and brain injuries during repeated tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.