Word: bren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilians who, in their spare time, would help government forces defend Phu Vinh. Hayden, who once spent a summer in the U.S. work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That display produced an additional 50 volunteers, and today his force has swollen to over...
Barbed Wire & Bren Guns. Before the new pacification program began, many a shifta tended his herd by day and turned terrorist at night. He was hard to catch because he kept constantly on the move. Now thousands of Somalis have been shunted into manyat-ta (protected villages), a safe distance from the Somalia border. Such tribes as the Turkanas and the Boran, which have been nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with...
...instance, the new bestseller is suddenly Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which JAMES F. COYNE comes encased in red plastic with a red-ribbon marker. At Berke ley, it is treated like an amulet by the Black Muslims; at Columbia, it is outselling everything since Henry Miller; and Bren-tano's at the Pentagon has already unloaded 1,000 copies at $1 each. A few of the buyers may be genuine sinologists, but for the vast majority it is the new camp classic...
...Cyprus at week's end, cicadas droned in the midsummer heat and sentries dozed over their Bren guns in sandbagged positions on the high ridges. But the quiet was deceptive, openly characterized by U.N. Commander Thimayya as "only a breather." Without much success, he was frantically trying to get U.N. troop units sandwiched between the opposing sides at Kokkina as a way to prevent another outbreak. At the same time, he appealed to U.N. headquarters for more troops, arguing that his 6,000 men were not enough to keep the peace; but no one was volunteering. Meanwhile, the careless...
...Hercules transports, complete with U.S. crews and maintenance teams, took off for New Delhi to fly Indian troops and equipment to the battle zone. Britain weighed in with Bren and Sten guns, and airlifted 150 tons of arms to India. Canada prepared to ship six transport planes. Australia opened Indian credits for $1,800,000 worth of munitions...