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...Brazzaville's presidential palace was crowded with reporters and armed militia youths. Handcuffed to a chair was a terrified prisoner of war. Behind a table piled high with machine guns, hand grenades, plastic bombs, pistols and ammunition, stood President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, the picture of triumphant rage. "A commando group of 32 men landed at Brazzaville on the night of July 14," he announced. "Their mission was to assassinate your government leaders...
Commander Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare ordered his twin commando columns to dash straight to Buta-in hopes of surprising the Simbas before they could...
While the Arabs bickered, Israel struck. Angered at the increasing incursions of a newly organized secret Arab commando outfit known as "Asifa" (storm troopers), the Israeli army last week sent 50 of its own commandos across the border. The Israeli raiders entered three Jordanian towns, hastily evacuated civilians, then blew up gas stations, farmhouses and an abandoned mill. More raids lay ahead, hinted the Israeli radio, unless Asifa incursions were brought...
...Teacher, Quick. In the U.S., at least, inertia has been fostered by a crushing weight of institutional responsibility. In Loyola's time, the Jesuits were a mobile spiritual commando of shock troops, kept free of routine and organization to serve God and the Pope as need arose. Today, the American provinces are hard put to staff an awesome ecclesiastical machine that supports in the U.S. alone, 28 colleges and universities, 51 high schools, 24 national publications, and ten seminaries. As a result, the scholarly careers of promising men are sometimes delayed or curtailed by immediate institutional needs. "The percentage...
...rebels get not only guns but instruction as well. The Chinese Communists have long operated a rebel training camp at Gamboma in the Brazzaville Congo, and recent intelligence reports indicate that the Algerian army has sent a top training officer to Brazzaville to open an 800-Simba commando school. Three other camps reportedly have been opened for the Simbas in the southern Sudan, a fourth somewhere in Egypt, and a fifth near Cherchell on Algeria's Mediterranean coast...