Word: commando
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What Twiggy is doing for fashions, a new breed of audacious British thieves is doing for crime. British crime has become both more frequent and more spectacular ever since the Great Train Robbery of 1963 whetted rascals' appetites for neatly executed commando-type operations-and titillated the imagination of millions with tales of rags to riches. British robbers these days are getting away with an incredible $840,000 in loot each week...
...European theater, he continually opposed the dangerous dispersion of U.S. forces on peripheral operations. He did not disguise the fact that he found hair-raising some brilliantly improvised British plans for commando-type raids on the German-held coasts of Europe. He felt that they might dissipate the grand design that culminated in the huge assault on the beachheads of Normandy. He was not a commando-minded man-and it was just as well...
...Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain experience and, possibly, arms. Planted officers participated in field maneuvers designed to perfect homemade bombs and hone the group's commando tactics. In one exercise, a Minuteman was observed firing cans of peas from a mortar at a pasture full of cows, while a forward lookout called back range corrections...
...Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville), President Mobutu believed otherwise. Charging that some of the white mercenaries-principally Belgians of the 6th Commando-were behind the mutiny, he fired off angry charges to Brussels and sent Premier Leonard Mulamba to Stanleyville to calm the mutineers. At week's end, Mulamba reported from the rebellious city that the mercenaries were not involved in the mutiny. But 6th Commando Boss Robert Denard, a magnificently mustachioed Frenchman who served Tshombe in the secession, was on the scene, and no one could say for certain that Mulamba's disclaimer had not been uttered at mercenary...
...first class, ranging in age from 18 to 65, proved a bit shy and embarrassed at charts and commando tactics until Harvey reminded them why they were there. "The first rule is to keep your head. You have to determine quickly your attacker's capability, motive and state of mind, and estimate your chance of success," he said. "If you miscalculate you may not have a second chance...