Word: convoying
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...army appeared to tangle indiscriminately. In four cities within four days, 80 people were killed and 160 wounded. Several Moslems suspected of being terrorists were caught by a crowd in Oran and burned alive in their car. In a mountain gorge near Bougie, the F.L.N. ambushed a French army convoy, killing 18 soldiers-the highest army losses in recent months...
Turning Point. It was to demonstrate that determination in the only language that Communism can understand that Kennedy ordered an armored U.S. troop convoy to travel the Autobahn from West Germany through East German territory to West Berlin. The journey made for some dramatic headlines, but its real significance was somehow diluted by the flood of international crises. Kennedy well recognized that if the convoy were stopped, the shooting might start. "Talking to Kennedy was like talking to a statue," recalls a White House aide. "There was the feeling that this mission could very well escalate into shooting before morning...
...trip to Cape Cod; his military aide, Army Major General Ted Clifton, was ordered to remain on duty all night to report to the President in case of trouble. Kennedy himself stayed up until midnight, then turned in. When he arose at 8 a.m., he was told that the convoy's first group had passed safely through the gate into West Berlin...
...Katangese on the airport road. Suddenly shots rang out. When the dust cleared half an hour later, one Indian was dead and four wounded, but among the shambles of the smashed roadblock lay 38 dead Katangese and still more wounded. The road was at last open, permitting a convoy of 240 Swedish reinforcements, just in by air from Europe, to move into the town itself...
...smoothly as De Gaulle had hoped. In Villefranche-de-Rouergue, the mayor demanded "social justice and democratic liberty." Throughout the department of Aveyron, teachers and veterans boycotted his appearances. But in general, despite a boycott ordered by farm and labor unions, De Gaulle got a rousing welcome. As his convoy of black Citroëns wound through patches of woodlands tinged with autumn, past slate-roofed farmhouses, farmers and their families came to the edges of their fields to wave and doff their berets; and at crossroads, schoolchildren fluttered paper flags. Once again, De Gaulle showed that despite sporadic signs...