Word: armymen
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Topping's tactic worked. The Communists left the prisoners alone. Wisely the armymen agreed that Major Kemper would be their spokesman...
...Three Italians were tried for murder but released by Italian courts; two U.S. Armymen, Aldo Icardi and Carl LoDolce, were convicted by Italy in absentia but cannot be extradited for punishment, nor can they be tried for the crime...
Upper Hand. He was scarcely a welcome addition. Philippine armymen bluntly recommended that Bandit Taruc be brought to trial (for murder, treason and arson) and quickly sentenced to death. They well remembered Taruc's last"surrender"-in 1948, when he accepted an amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper...
...return followed the classic pattern of Latin American "revolutions." Every traditional element was present: a bold, shrewd Strong Man, a hard core of army malcontents, a weak government. Similar combinations have brought armymen to power in many other Latin countries (see box). In this case, it remained only for Batista & friends to write in the characteristically Cuban touches...
...armymen in the Russian zone of occupation, the anti-Communist Viennese have only hatred and fear. For the 10,000 easygoing, sometimes ill-mannered American G.I.s, Viennese have a kind of cultural scorn-and a cultural weakness. Such Yank idioms as "50-50," "yam [i.e., jam] session" and "get a bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...