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Night on Old Harry. The cost was high. King Company, 15th ("Can Do") Regiment, lay in 30 bunkers atop the ugly, sausage-shaped ridge the night the Communists hit. Under a heavy barrage, a battalion of Chinese scrambled up the dusty, littered slopes of Harry. Battling hand to hand in their crumbling trenches, the outnumbered G.I.s drove the Reds off. The shelling continued. One by one, the bunkers collapsed, covering American and Chinese bodies with sand and dust. King was reinforced; the Reds attacked again & again. During the night, 20,000 artillery and mortar shells had exploded in an area...
...decided to force the issue. He stalked into the Presidential Palace and abruptly resumed the full presidency, ousting Urdaneta. Implacable as ever, he immediately fired Rojas. The general, weekending at a country town, got the word by telephone, flew back to Bogotá, went to a battalion barracks in the heart of the city and waited. Soon the new Minister of War, named by Gómez that morning, arrived to take charge; Rojas quietly arrested him. Then the general sent tanks and troops into the city. In an hour, without a single killing or even much excitement, Rojas seized...
...Conservative cabinet including three brother officers. Over the radio from the palace, he promised "clean elections" and "no more bloodshed, no more quarrels among the sons of Colombia." He also pledged scrupulous observance of all international obligations and sent personal greetings to the Colombian battalion in Korea, the only Latin American contingent fighting with the United Nations forces...
...rosette. Since then he has commanded a French armored division and been deputy commander in chief of the French occupation forces in Germany. His most recent job: chief of staff to Marshal Juin at NATO headquarters. Navarre's younger brother, Jacques, recently made a lieutenant colonel, is a battalion commander in Indo-China...
...general, he wrote, should not fight his battle as a game of chess, but must take personal command in the field. His accounts of the fighting in France and North Africa are filled with such notes as: "To enable me to force the pace, I took the leading battalion under my personal command." This brought him constantly under enemy fire; he missed death by inches; his drivers and aides were killed; he suffered a fractured skull himself when strafing U.S. airmen caught his car in their gunsights in France...