Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zapped Again. It was on the second day of the patrol that the unit got bush whacked. When the Communists opened fire, Owen struggled loose to form a defensive formation with half a dozen others. After firing a few rounds, his weapon jammed. "I'd never fired an M-14 before," he says. "I figured I'd better learn." Yanking out the blocked magazine, Owen replaced it and aimed at what looked like a moving tree. It spun sideways and fell. "Man, I was really praying then," he says. To stay alive? "Heck, no," he replies earnestly...
...Simbas-or what is left of them -are scattered throughout the bush. Yet some of them are still heavily armed and capable of menacing rural villages. The job of keeping them under control now passes to Major John Peters, 38, a onetime street fighter from the grimy English mill city of Leeds. A specialist in coping with sticky situations, Peters was called upon to break the Simbas' front line at Baraka, the toughest battle the mercenaries ever fought. Peters stood up, gripped his officers' baton (he never draws his pistol in battle), and led an attack that broke...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Richard Burton and Barbara Rush in The Bramble Bush, the story of a doctor who returns to his home town to care for an incurably ill friend. Color...
...KEITH BUSH Economist Munich, Germany...
Many whites bugged out in despair; others sold their farms but took jobs flying bush planes, running tourist camps, still staying in the grand, gaudy country they loved. Today, there are And Dares-41,000 whites in Kenya, and they are by their own testimony happier than they were before uhuru. From the four Kenya races-African, Asian, European and Arab-Jomo Kenyatta has forged the closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever...