Word: 82nd
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Caamaño himself grabbed a telephone and called for help from President García-Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
...after eight weeks of frustration and surprises, Harvard is a tendons three-point favorite to win the 82nd version of the classic in New Haven. The good year never materialized for Harvard, while Yale, which had been ridded by graduation losses last June, has not held a disastrous campaign...
...This 82nd renewal of The Game is inscrutable. We have had an ugly premonition that the contest will end in a 7-7 tie, but sheer blind faith in Bobby Leo, Wally Grant, and Harvard's superiority over Yale in all things leads us to predict a 10-7 Crimson victory with more hope than conviction.CrimsonMark L. Rosenberg '66BOBBY LEO (left) and WALLY GRANT (right) will lead the Crimson's offense against Yale today...
...Presidential Orders. The troops -two battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...
...headquarters of the Castroite 14th of June Movement and in a newspaper plant, U.S. paratroopers seized a small arsenal of rifles and ready-to-throw Molotov cocktails. Under orders to grab every weapon in sight, the 82nd troopers even disarmed the eight uniformed cops guarding the house of rebel-rousing ex-President Juan Bosch. As for Bosch himself, he requested-and got-a U.S. military escort to safer quarters five miles out of town. Rebel Chief Colonel Francisco Caamano Deñó, already safe at a camp outside the city, reacted predictably: "It is a shame...