Word: cannoneering
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...came out, and the cannon firing resumed, smashing windows, splintering doors, knocking chunks off the palace walls. The riflemen, belly-flat on the ground, sniped happily at Diem's last-ditch supporters. The battle was clearly over, and 17 minutes later, by dawn's first light, reported TIME Correspondent Murray Gart, "I could see a white flag being waved from a first-floor window on the palace's southwest corner. But there was more shooting from the palace. Then the white flag waved again and firing stopped. At first cautiously, then freely, the camouflage-suited rebels began...
...mother ship" that Castro identified as the Rex, a 170-ft. vessel flying the Nicaraguan flag and operating out of West Palm Beach. The raiders were armed with two .30-cal. machine guns on each of the launches, and the Rex was loaded for bear: a 75-mm. cannon, two 57-mm. and five twin 20-mm. cannon. In seven months, continued Castro, the Rex has carried out ten missions to slip arms and men into Cuba-"and it is not the only boat that...
...tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least ten Algerians were slain. By sunset the outnumbered Algerians rushed up reinforcements. Soon 4,000 men were involved in the fighting, 750 miles southwest of Algiers. It was a sporadic struggle, and after...
...child, Konrad Adenauer was instructed by his father: "Do not let yourself be diverted until you have finished, not even if a cannon goes off at your elbow." Amid thunderous salutes on the eve of his retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
Sheepish Smile. Even as Ben Bella spoke, his army moved. A convoy of seven Soviet-made 85-mm. cannon, a batch of 37-mm. antiaircraft guns and two fresh battalions rolled along twisting roads into the mountain town of Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops...