Foreign News: Five Seconds

Above all other military duties private soldiers enjoy listening to lectures. Whether the subject is Elementary Gunnery or Advanced Hygiene does not matter. A soldier at a lecture is quietly sitting down. He is not drilling, digging or carrying anything. Last week soldiers of the First Jugoslavian Infantry stationed at Bosiljgrad sat down for an hour to hear all about hand grenades, while other less fortunate soldiers drilled, marched and sweated in the courtyard below. Young Lieutenant Jovice gave the lecture. Before him lay a loaded hand grenade, not the compact "pineapple" type...