Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ingenious new tool for riot control may be "instant banana peel," a powdery chemical introduced last week by Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America. Sprayed on the street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...
...were not Viet Cong captives but trainees in a gruelingly realistic prisoner-of-war course at Fort Sill, Okla. Roughest of its kind in the Army, the course is designed to toughen artillery-officer candidates for the kind of torture and humiliation under which many prisoners cracked in Korea. In the year since the course began, about 6,000 officers have completed...
...course begins at dawn. After calisthenics and classroom work, the artillerymen are trucked out to the fort's forested hills, turned loose, and told to evade mock aggressor forces patrolling the 7½-sq,-mi. area. Of 133 artillerymen who took the course one day recently, fewer than 30 got away. The rest were marched, often barefoot, to a simulated P.O.W. compound...
...Reshuffled part of his military leadership, arrested dozens of army officers, and, in a grisly ceremony at Port-au-Prince's Fort Dimanche, personally presided over the execution of 19 of his prisoners...
Turning the Screw. The raids were part of the Administration's newly ex panded list of Northern targets. Starting with the successful attack a fort night ago against Hanoi's Paul Doumer rail and highway bridge, the missions were planned to apply yet another turn of the screw against North Viet Nam's vital rail system. Though the U.S. has long been attacking the railways south of the buffer zone, Hanoi still imports the vast bulk of its war materiel by train. While petroleum, food and fertilizer imports come in mostly by sea, the rail system...