Word: antiriot
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Nicosia hospital was fledgling writer and Royal Horse Guards Subaltern Auberon Alexander Waugh, 18, eldest son of pawky Satirist Evelyn Waugh (who like son served with the famed "Blues," during World War II), after being wounded in a shooting accident following antiriot operations in troubled Cyprus...
...report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...