Word: convoying
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Stalemate. Rising tension. What would it all lead to? Darkness fell, and the convoy-confined U.S. troops dug into their C rations...
Finally, after 15 hours, with the same abruptness and with as little apparent reason as they had to stop them in the first place, the Soviets let the convoys go. The westbound convoy went unhindered, to its destination in West Germany. But the eastbound convoy got only 90 miles along the pike toward West Berlin when it was halted by tommy gun-toting Russian soldiers headed by a high-ranking Soviet officer. Again came the Communist command: everybody out for a head count. And again the U.S. convoy commander refused...
...then, 52 hours after it had started, the new Berlin Blockade ended as suddenly as it had begun. The convoy was waved on its way with friendly Russian smiles...
...Mafra and 20 engineers roared out of the base in two troop trucks. To avoid downtown traffic, Mafra guided his tiny convoy through the coastal hills, only to run into a traffic jam caused by an accident. By the time they finally reached the hospital, it was 8 a.m. Lacerda had just left-after his secret service got a last-minute tip that troops were...
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...