Word: bazookas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evacuated last month for lack of ammo, Paddy was one of the last men out, a machine gun in one hand, a demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner pate and fights on despite bazooka fragments in one hand. Another veteran has just left Steiner. Captain Alec, a onetime British paratrooper, used to walk around with a Madsen submachine gun, an FN rifle, and a shotgun, "just in case I have to shoot my way out of this bloody place." He believed in the "little people...
Home-Made Bazooka. The first casualty of the invasion was nonviolence. When protesting students assembled in the Plaza of the Three Cultures,* the granaderos charged. Students retreated to nearby apartments and replied with a volley of rocks and Molotov cocktails. At the Santo Tomas campus of the Polytechnic National Institute, the students had better weaponry. Snipers armed mostly with .22-cal. rifles and pistols, plus a home-made bazooka, pinned the granaderos down until reinforcements of riot cops arrived. Throughout much of the week, clashes continued in scattered spots...
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...schools. More police brutality ensued. Students started sleeping over-night in the schools to keep the police out. On August 1 at 2 a.m., the Mexican army surrounded one of the high schools. The more than 100 students sleeping there were told to leave. When they refused, an army bazooka was used to blow open one of the doors. The army then marched in and forcibly pulled out the students. 20 students were hurt and three or four were killed. The army took the bodies of the dead students and burned them -- afterwards claiming that no one was killed...
...Israeli government had counted 91 separate incidents along the Jordanian border. Then the Jordanians suddenly stepped up the violence. Sporadic artillery duels sent kibbutz dwellers in Galilee scurrying for cover and killed 17 Arabs in a refugee camp near the Allenby Bridge. Three mortar shells exploded in Jerusalem. Bazooka shells landed near the airport at Lydda...