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...government has so far kept the Reds from returning by keeping an outsize force, composed of one infantry battalion, a Ranger unit, and a company of engineers, pinned down in the area. A few weeks ago, the troops beat off two Viet Cong companies that attacked a hamlet west of Phumy and burned down several houses, leaving 400 peasants homeless. Government officials concede that the Communist guerrillas could overrun Phumy again should they mount enough strength. All the government can vow-and what it does vow-is to make any such onslaught extremely expensive for the Reds, and ultimately...
...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
...troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...omens were not the best. Last week a Viet Cong battalion ambushed two government paratrooper units one mile from the Cambodian frontier, then fled, as the Reds have so often done in the past, into the adjacent kingdom...
...mutiny began shortly after midnight on January 20 when the troops of the Tanganyika (formerly King's African) Rifles First Battalion seized the arms at Colito Barracks and arrested their European officers and NCOs. Soldiers then proceeded to surround the State House and to take over the radio station, airport, telegraph office, and other key points throughout the city. Several ministers were arrested before dawn, but President Nyerere and Vice President Rashidi Kawawa escaped...